Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c2.31

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⁶ Calcutta Review, July, 1930, p. 83: He has shown the growth of the Jātaka literature through these stages: Pre-Buddhistic times—Akkhānas as popular folklores and ballads in Prakrit; Time of Buddha and the 1st Council—Jātakas as popular folklore and ballads illustrating the doctrine of Karma, incorporated in Āgama Piṭaka; Second Council—Suttanta Jātaka and Jātakas as moral stories incorporated with the Dhamma Vinaya; Third Council—Jātaka collection as a separate book of verses included in the Khuddaka Nikāya: special Jātakas as Cariyā Piṭaka; First Century A.D.—Bodhisatta vs. Devadatta stories from Jātakas and Jātakas as moral stories found in the Milinda; Fifth Century A.D.—Jātaka verses found in the Dhammapada Aṭṭhakathā; End of 5th Century A.D.—Jātakas of the Jātaka Book exclusively as birth stories of the Bodhisatta in Jātaka-Aṭṭhakathā.” Ibid, p. 84.