A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.363

v2.c19.s3.t2.363

⁴ The two recensions of the Cariyāpiṭaka have only 21 Jātakas in common with each other, and there are only 12 of these which they share with the Jātakamālā too. The fact that 34 was the original and traditional number, is proved not only by the Jātakamālā, but also by the name or epithet of Buddha Catustriṁśajjātakajña, "knower of the 34 Jātakas," in Hemachandra's Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 233, in the commentary of which the old lexicographer Vyāḍi is quoted, who enumerates a list of Jātakas, the majority of which occur in the Jātakamālā. Cf. *Kern*, *Manual*, p. 66. The hypothesis suggested by some scholars (thus *Rhys Davids*, *l.c.*, p. liii f., but see *Charpentier*, *l.c.*, pp. 406 f.) that it was originally intended to elucidate each Pāramitā by 10 Jātakas, has no foundation whatsoever.