A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.360
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.360
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¹ There is no justification for the view that there was originally only a small collection of 34 Jātakas, which only later gradually grew into the large collection of 550 stories, in which case the Cariyāpiṭaka would be a résumé of this old Jātaka (Cf. *Pischel*, Leben und Lehre des Buddha, p. 61). Cf. *Oldenberg*, NGGW, 1912, 183 ff.