The History of Indian Literature c9.412

c9.412

³⁵¹ From the Chinese translation Stan. Julien has published quite a collection of such stories, for the most part very short (*Les Avadánas, Contes et Apologues Indiens*, 1859). The high importance of these, as well as of the Buddhistic Játaka and other stories generally, in the literature of the fable and fairy-tale, is shown in full relief by Benfey in the introduction to his translation of the Pañchatantra.