Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
Jataka stories, English
[81] This is clear from vol. i. p. 410 of Mr. Fausböll’s text, where,
at the end of the 100th tale, we find the words _Majjhima-paṇṇāsako
nitthito_, that is, ‘End of the Middle Fifty.’ At the end of the 50th
tale (p. 261) there is a corresponding entry, _Paṭhamo paṇṇōso_,
‘First Fifty’; and though there is no such entry at the end of the
150th tale, the expression ‘Middle Fifty’ shows that there must have
been, at one time, such a division as is above stated.
[82] See, for instance, above, p. xxvii; and below, p. 185.
[83] ‘Pantscha Tantra,’ von _Theodor Benfey_, Leipzig, 1859, p. xi.
[84] That is, in the course of Prof. Benfey’s researches.
[85] In ‘Ersch und Grüber’s Encyklopædie,’ especially at pp. 255 and
277.
[86] _Wassiliew_, ‘Der Buddhismus,’ etc., p. 68.
[87] Compare the title of the Birth Story above, p. xxii, ‘A Lesson for
Kings.’
[88] See above, p. xxix.
[89] Knatchbull, p. 29.
[90] _Dr. Fitz-Edward Hall’s_ Vāsavadatta, pp. 22-24.
[91] _Dr. Bühler_ in the Indian Antiquary, i. 302, v. 29, vi. 269.
[92] Nos. 61, 62, 63, 147, 159, 193, 196, 198, 199, 263.
[93] Nos. 106, 145, 191, 286.
[94] Nos. 58, 73, 142, 194, 220, and 277, have the same Introductory
Story.
And so Nos. 60, 104, 116, 161.
And Nos. 127, 128, 138, 173, 175.
[95] See the Pāli note at the end of Jātaka No. 91.
[96] pp. 99-106.
[97] Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 28, 29, 37, 55, 56, 68, 85, 87, 88, 97, 100,
114, 136 (total, eighteen in the Eka-Nipāta); 156 (=55, 56), 196, 202,
237 (=68), 241 (total, five in the Duka-Nipāta); 255, 256, 258, 264,
284, 291, 300 (total, seven in the Tika-Nipāta, and thirty altogether).
[98] Nos. 152, 168, 179, 233, 286.
[99] This belief underlies the curious note forming the last words of
the Mahā-supina Jātaka, i. 345: “Those who held the Council after the
death of the Blessed One placed the lines beginning _usabhā rukkhā_ in
the Commentary, and then, making the other lines beginning _lābūni_
into one verse, they put (the Jātaka) into the Eka-Nipāta (the chapter
including all those Jātakas which have only one verse).”
[100] See, for instance, below, pp. 212, 228, 230, 317; above, p. xii;
and Jātaka No. 113.
[101] Nos. 110, 111, 112, 170, 199 in the Ummagga Jātaka, and No. 264
in the Suruci Jātaka.
[102]
No. 30 = No. 286.
No. 34 = No. 216.
No. 46 = No. 268.
No. 57 = No. 224.
No. 68 = No. 237.
No. 86 = No. 290.
No.102 = No. 217.
No.145 = No. 198.
[103]
So No. 82 = No. 104.
So No. 99 = No. 101.
So No.134 = No. 135.
So No.195 = No. 225.
So No.294 = No. 295.
Compare the two stories Nos. 23 and 24 translated below.
[104] Translated below, pp. 278-290.
[105] Billy (1535-1577) was Abbot of St. Michael’s, in Brittany.
Another edition of his Latin version, by Rosweyd, is also reprinted in
Migne, ‘Series Latina,’ tom. lxxiii; and several separate editions have
appeared besides (Antwerp, 1602; Cologne, 1624, etc.).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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