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                        BUDDHIST BIRTH STORIES;

                                  OR,

                             JĀTAKA TALES.

              THE OLDEST COLLECTION OF FOLK-LORE EXTANT:

                                 BEING

                        THE JĀTAKATTHAVAṆṆANĀ,

           _For the first time Edited in the Original Pāli_

                            BY V. FAUSBÖLL,

                            AND TRANSLATED

                         BY T. W. RHYS DAVIDS.

                             TRANSLATION.

                              _VOLUME I._


                                LONDON:
                     TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.
                                 1880.
                       [_All rights reserved._]




                               HERTFORD:
                  PRINTED BY STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS.




                                  TO

                     GEHEIM-RATH PROFESSOR DOCTOR

                               STENZLER

                  MY FIRST GUIDE IN ORIENTAL STUDIES

              IN CONGRATULATION ON HIS ‘DOCTOR JUBILÄUM’

           AND IN DEEP RESPECT FOR HIS PROFOUND SCHOLARSHIP

                       THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY

                          HIS GRATEFUL PUPIL

                              THE AUTHOR.




TABLE OF CONTENTS.


  TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION.                                PAGE


  PART I.

  _The Book of Birth Stories, and their Migration to the West._

  Orthodox Buddhist belief concerning it. Two reasons
  for the value attached to it                      i-iv

  Selected Stories.--1. The Ass in the Lion’s Skin     v

  2. The Talkative Tortoise                         viii

  3. The Jackal and the Crow                         xii

