A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.204
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.204
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¹ The numerous allusions in the Jātaka book, of one Jātaka to another, preceding as well as later ones, seems to me to confirm that the single Jātakas were in existence as independent texts long before they were combined to form a large collection. The long Jātakas of the last books, in particular, which in their turn are divided into sections, and to which reference is often made in earlier short Jātakas, were surely originally independent poems. *Cf.* J. Dutoit, Jātakazitate in den Jātakatexten, in Festschrift Kuhn, 345 ff.