Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c2.2

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¹ Culla-Niddesa, II, p. 80, an old commentary (probably of 1st or 2nd century B.C.) on the Jātaka-aṭṭhakathā of the Sutta-Nipāta, speaks of 500 Jātakas: Fa-hien too, (Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms, transl. by J. Legge, Oxford, 1886, p. 106) speaks of pictures illustrating Jātaka stories which he had seen in Ceylon. See Barua, I.H.Q., I, p. 247; II, pp. 723 ff. Winternitz, History of Indian Literature, II, p. 124 n. 1. See now, B.C. Law, J.R.A.S., April, 1938, pp. 211-259.