[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.t2.231 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.231 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.231 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t2.231](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.231) ² The numerous Buddhistic versions of this Jātaka No. 537 in Pāli, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan literature, and its fore-runners in the epic-puranic tradition, have been treated in detail by K. \*Watanabe\*, in JPTS., 1909, pp. 236 ff. Cf. \*Charpentier\* in WZKM., 23, 1909, p. 161, note 3; 24, 1910, p. 396 note. \*Pavolini\* (GSAI., 25, 324) also refers to H. \*Kern\* in Versl. en Meded. der Kon. Akad. van Wetensch., Afd. Letterk. IV, 11, pp. 170 ff. J. S. \*Speyer\*, and after him R. \*Garbe\* (Contributions of Buddhism to Christianity, Chicago 1911, pp. 42 ff. and Indien und das Christentum, Tübingen 1914, pp. 101-111) seek to establish a connection between the Christian legend of Saint Christopher and this Jātaka; but the two legends have nothing in common but the conversion of a cannibal giant; the Christian legend bears no trace of the actual nucleus of the Buddhist fairy-tale. See also H. \*Günter\*, Buddha in der abendländischen Legende? Leipzig 1922, pp. 19 ff. - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t2.230](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.230) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t2.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.232) - [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.t2.231](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.231) · Pramāṇa