A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.176

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³ Standard edition by V. *Fausböll*, Vols. I-VII (Vol. VII: Index by D. *Andersen*), London 1877-1897. A new edition, in Siamese characters, has been issued by their Majesties Queen Aunt and Queen Suddhasinninath of Siam in 1925 (10 vols.). Translations: Buddhist Birth Stories, or Jātaka Tales, translated by T. W. *Rhys Davids*, London, 1880 (contains Nos. 1-40). The Jātaka or stories of the Buddha's Former Births, translated from the Pāli by various Hands under the Editorship of E. B. *Cowell*, Vols. I-VI, Cambridge 1895-1907 (the translators are R. *Chalmers*, W. H. D. *Rouse*, H. T. *Francis*, R. A. *Neil* and *Cowell* himself): Vol. VII contains the Index. A considerable number of Jātakas have been translated by R. *Morris* in *Folk-Lore Journal* II-IV and Paul *Steinthal* *Zeitschrift für vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte*, N. F. VI, 1893, pp. 106 ff., VII, 1894, pp. 296 ff., X, 1896, pp. 75 ff., XI, 1897, pp. 313 ff. and *Studien zur vergleichenden Litteraturgeschichte* I, 1901, pp. 475 ff., II, 1902, pp. 265 ff.; A. *Grünwedel*, Buddhistische Studien I, Berlin 1897 gives 55 Jatakas partly in extract, and partly in translation. Selections have been translated by Else *Lüders*, Buddhistische Märchen, mit einer Einleitung von H. *Lüders*, Jena 1921. A complete German translation by Julius *Dutoit* was published in Leipzig in 1908 ff. Literature on Jātakas: Léon *Feer*, JA 1875, s. 7, t. V. pp. 357 ff., t. VI, pp. 243 ff.; 1895, s. 9, t. V, pp. 31 ff., 189 ff.; 1897, s. 9, t. IX, pp. 288 ff.; S. *d'Oldenburg* JRAS 1893, pp. 301 ff.; R. O. *Franke*, Beitr. 22, 1897 pp. 289 ff., WZKM 20, 1906, pp. 317 ff.; T. W. *Rhys Davids*, Buddhist India, pp. 189 ff.; Album Kern, Leide 1903, pp. 13 ff.; *Oldenberg*, Literatur des alten Indien, pp. 103 ff; NGGW 1912, pp. 183 ff.; 214 ff.; 1918, pp. 429 ff.; 1919, pp. 61 ff., and Zur Geschichte der altindischen Prosa (AGGW 1917, pp. 79 ff.); S. *Lévi*, Les Jātakas (Conférences du Musée Guimet XIX, 1906): W. *Geiger*, Pāli Literatur und Sprache, pp. 20 f.; *Winternitz* in ERE, Vol. VII, pp. 491 ff.