Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c2.12
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c2.12
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c2.12
Mr. Gokuldas De, in one of his essays on the Significance of the Jāt has conclusively shown that, bereft of the Bodhisatta id a Jātaka originally consisted of a verse or verses embodyin in a concise form a past episode, generally with a mora understood with the help of a prose narration which for th most part remained implicit rather than explicit, changing according to circumstances.⁵ That originally the Jātakas were folk-tales in verses