The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c7.24

c7.24

Besides, Buddhistic narratives which are in other respects altogether different, exhibit the same tendency in the region of morals; the great mass of concrete data regarding the life of the people which are found in the realistic pictures of the Jâtakas is for them a matter of indifference; it is purely casual, and this casual manner, this parenthetic way in which these things are described, has preserved it from distortions.