Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
Jataka stories, English
41_a_. English translation of No. 41, by _Rājā Kāli Krishna_,
Serampur, 1830. See No. 22.
42. VĪRA-CARITAŊ, the Adventures of King Ṣālivāhana.
TABLE II.
THE KALILAG AND DAMNAG LITERATURE.
1. A lost Buddhist work in a language of Northern India, ascribed to
Bidpai. See above, pp. lxx-lxxii.
2. Pēlvī version, 531-579 A.D. By _Barzūyē_, the Court physician of
Khosru Nushírvan. See above, p. xxix.
3. KALILAG UND DAMNAG. Syrian version of No. 2. Published with German
translation by _Gustav Bickell_, and Introduction by Professor
_Benfey_, Leipzig, 1876. This and No. 15 preserve the best evidence of
the contents of No. 2, and of its Buddhist original or originals.
4. KALILAH WĀ DIMNAH (Fables of Bidpai). Arabic version of No. 3,
by _Abd-allah_, son of Almokaffa. Date about 750 A.D. Text of one
recension edited by _Silvestre de Sacy_, Paris, 1816. Other recensions
noticed at length in Ignazio Guidi’s ‘Studii sul testo Arabo del libro
di Calila e Dimna’ (Rome, 1873).
5. KALILA AND DIMNA. English version of No. 4, by _Knatchbull_,
Oxford, 1819.
6. DAS BUCH DES WEISEN. German version of No. 4, by _Wolff_,
Stuttgart, 1839.
7. STEPHANITĒS KAI ICHVĒLATĒS. Greek version of No. 4, by _Simeon
Seth_, about 1080 A.D. Edited by _Seb. Gottfried Starke_, Berlin, 1697
(reprinted in Athens, 1851), and by _Aurivillius_, Upsala, 1786.
8. Latin version of No. 7, by _Father Possin_, at the end of his
edition of Pachymeres, Rome, 1866.
9. Persian translation of No. 4, by _Abdul Maali Nasr Allah_,
1118-1153. Exists, in MS. only, in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.
10. ANVĀR I SUHAILI. Persian translation, through the last, of No. 4,
by _Husain ben Ali el Vāiz U’l-Kāshifī_; end of the fifteenth century.
11. ANVĀR I SUHAILI, OR THE LIGHTS OF CANOPUS. English version of No.
10, by _Edward Eastwick_, Hertford, 1854.
11_a_. Another English version of No. 10, by _Arthur N. Wollaston_
(London, Allen).
12. LIVRE DES LUMIÈRES. French version of No. 10, by _David Sahid_,
d’Ispahan, Paris, 1644, 8vo.
13. DEL GOVERNO DE’ REGNI. Italian version of No. 7, Ferrara, 1583; by
_Giulio Nūti_. Edited by _Teza_, Bologna, 1872.
14. Hebrew version of No. 4, by _Joel_ (?), before 1250. Exists only
in a single MS. in Paris, of which the first part is missing.
15. DIRECTORIUM HUMANÆ VITÆ. Latin version of No. 14, by _John of
Capua_. Written 1263-1278. Printed about 1480, without date or name of
place. Next to No. 3 it is the best evidence of the contents of the
lost books Nos. 1 and 2.
16. German version of No. 15, also about 1480, but without date or
name of place.
17. Version in Ulm dialect of No. 16. Ulm, 1483.
18. _Baldo’s_ ‘ALTER ÆSOPUS.’ A translation direct from Arabic into
Latin (? thirteenth century.) Edited in _du Meril’s_ ‘Poesies inédites
du moyen age,’ Paris, 1854.
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