Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
Jataka stories, English
22_d_. German version of 22_a_, by _H. Oesterley_, in the ‘Bibliothek
Orientalischer Märchen und Erzählungen,’ 1873, with valuable
introduction and notes.
23. SSIDDI KÜR. Mongolian version of No. 18.
24. German versions of No. 23, by _Benjamin Bergmann_ in _Nomadische
Streifereien im Lande der Kalmücken_, i. 247 and foll., 1804; and by
_Juelg_, 1866 and 1868.
25. German version of No. 18, by _Dr. Luber_, Görz, 1875.
26. ṢUKA SAPTATI. The seventy stories of a parrot.
27. Greek version of No. 26, by _Demetrios Galanos_ and _G. K.
Typaldos_, _Psittakou Mythologiai Nukterinai_, included in their
version of Nos. 10 and 18.
28. Persian version of No. 26, now lost; but reproduced by _Nachshebi_
under the title Tuti Nāmeh.
28_a_. TOTA KAHANI. Hindustāni version of 26. Edited by _Forbes_.
28_b_. English version of 28_a_, by the _Rev. G. Small_.
29. SIṄHĀSANA DVĀTRIṄṢATI. The thirty-two stories of the throne
of Vikramāditya; called also _Vikrama Caritra_. Edited in Madras, 1861.
29_a_. SINGHASAN BATTISI. Hindī version of 29. Edited by _Syed
Abdoolah_.
30. VATRIṢ SINGHĀSAN. Bengalī version of No. 29, Serampur, 1818.
31. ARJI BORJI CHAN. Mongolian version of No. 29.
32. VṚIHAT-KATHĀ. By _Guṇādhya_, probably about the sixth century;
in the Paiṣacī Prākrit. See above, p. lxxiii.
33. KATHĀ SARIT SĀGARA. The Ocean of the Rivers of Tales. It is
founded on No. 32. Includes No. 18, and a part of No. 5. The Sanskrit
text edited by _Brockhaus_, Leipzig, vol. i. with German translation,
1839; vol. ii. text only, 1862 and 1866. Original by _Ṣrī Somadeva
Bhaṭṭa_, of Kashmīr, at the beginning of the twelfth century A.D. See
above, pp. lxxii, lxxiii.
34. VṚIHAT-KATHA. A Sanskrit version of No. 34, by _Kshemendra_, of
Kashmīr. Written independently of Somadeva’s work, No. 32. See above,
p. lxxiii.
35. PAÑCA DAṆḌA CHATTRA PRABANDHA. Stories about King Vikramāditya’s
magic umbrella. Jain Sanskrit. Text and German version by _Weber_,
Berlin, 1877.
36. VĀSAVADATTA. By _Subandhu_. Possibly as old as the sixth century.
Edited by _Fitz-Edward Hall_, in the _Bibliotheca Indica_, Calcutta,
1859. This and the next are romances, not story-books.
37. KĀDAMBARĪ. By _Bāṇa Bhaṭṭa_, ? seventh century. Edited in
Calcutta, 1850; and again, 1872, by _Tarkavacaspati_.
38. Bengali version of No. 37, by _Tāra Shankar Tarkaratna_. Tenth
edition, Calcutta, 1868.
39. DASA-KUMĀRA-CARITA. By _Daṇḍin_, ? sixth century. Edited by
_Carey_, 1804; _Wilson_, 1846; and by _Bühler_, 1873.
39_a_. HINDOO TALES, founded on No. 39. By _P. W. Jacob_, London, 1873.
39_b_. UNE TÉTRADE. By _Hippolyte Fauche_, Paris, 1861-1863. Contains
a translation into French of No. 39.
40. KATHĀRṆAVA, the Stream of Tales. In four Books; the first being
No. 18, the second No. 29, the third and fourth miscellaneous.
41. PURUSHA-PARĪKSHĀ, the Adventures of King Hammīra. Probably of the
fourteenth century. By _Vidyāpati_.
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