A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.193

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² Thus we may doubt whether the verses of Jāt. 61-65 were really intended as Gāthās for 5 different stories. The Gāthās of No. 377 and No. 487 probably belonged to one story, and in the same way those of Nos. 523 and 526. Cf. *Lüders* in Festschrift Windisch, pp. 228 ff. and NGGW 1897, 1. Jāt. No. 203 with 5 Gāthās, though it is included in the Section of two, is a snake incantation, in which, besides Buddha, Dhamma and Saṅgha, the "seven Buddhas" are also worshipped, though it is absurd to imagine that Gotama Buddha could have been worshipped as the seventh Buddha in the Atītavatthu, that is, at the period of one of his previous existences!