The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c4.4

c4.4

Here, in the kingdom of the Kâsi-Kosala and Magadha, in the States where Buddha, according to tradition, lived and taught, the somewhat ancient stories took the garb of Buddhistic birth-legends; here the acts of by far the largest majority of the Jâtakas were performed, and if some particular incidents among them occurred elsewhere, even in the most distant west, still the whole mass of detail, in which all the Jâtakas agree, points to the fact that what we find here is only an external transference of the scene.