[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s3.t2.176 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.176 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.176 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t2.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.176) 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. - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t2.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.175) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t2.177](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.177) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.176) · Pramāṇa