The Jataka: Or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births (6 Volumes in 3 Parts)
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ISBN
8120807251
Length
xxvi+324p., xx+316p., xx+328p., xii+320p., xiv+288p., viii+314+63p., Notes; Index.
Subjects
In India recollection of previous lives is a common feature in the histories of the saints and heroes of sacred tradition. The doctrine of transmigration, since the later Vedic period, has played such an important part in the history of the national character and religious ideas that even Buddhist literature has included the ages of the past as an authentic background to the founder’s historical life as Gautama. Jataka stories or birth-legends were widely ...
