Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c2.28

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⁴ But Gokuldas De, after a minute examination of the Barhut Jātaka label, comes to the conclusion that ‘the Jātakas of Barhut have to be taken in their ordinary sense meaning stories or fables told by the Master in illustration of his Doctrine and not in the special sense in which the Buddhists used them in later times implying birth stories of the Bodhisatta before he became the Buddha.’ Cal. Rev. Aug. 1929, pp. 257-64: ‘Barhut Jātakas in a New Light!’