A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.200

v2.c19.s3.t2.200

¹ There are 547 numbers in the Jātaka book. But as, in some of these numbers, several narratives are included, while others only contain references to later Jātakas, and as sometimes the same narratives recur in different versions, the figure 547 does not agree exactly with the actual number of Jātakas. The Culla-Niddesa (p. 80) speaks of 500 Jātakas. Fa-hien, too (Record of the Buddhist Kingdoms, transl. by J. Legge, Oxford, 1886, p. 106), speaks of pictures illustrating "500 Jātakas" which he had seen in Ceylon. *Cf.* B. M. Barua, Ind. Hist. Qu. II, 1926, pp. 623 ff.