Lectures on Ancient Indian Numismatics (Carmichael Lectures, 1921) c7.19

c7.19

¹ Bühler (IS., III. 16 & ff) refers the Pāli Buddhist Canon "to the fifth and possibly to the sixth century B.C."; and as he says that the Jātaka stories are loans from “the old pre-Buddhistic national tradition of India” and that the state of civilisation described in them “is in various respects primitive,” the life portrayed in them must be assigned to the seventh, at the latest the sixth, century B.C. For Rhys Davids’ views, see Buddhist India, 207-8.