Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c2.11

c2.11

We do not however mean to enter into a detailed discu history of the Jātakas as we have them, their origin, gro when and how they were included in the Buddhist canon form, and how they were finally compiled in their present problems, very intricate indeed, are more or less exhaustively other scholars.⁴ In order to understand, as far as possible, the the basis on which we stand, we have to note certain important po the help derived from the painstaking researches of these eminent sch