The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c43.350

v2.c43.350

**Volumes 28 and 29 and 30. Buddhist Legends.** Translated from the original Pāli text of the Dhamma-pada Commentary, by EUGENE WATSON BURLINGAME, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, sometime Harrison Fellow for Research at the University of Pennsylvania and Johnston Scholar in Sanskrit at the Johns Hopkins University and Lecturer on Pāli at Yale University. 1921. Pages, 362 + 370 + 378 = 1110. Royal 8°. Not sold separately. Price, $20. Dhamma-pada, or Way of Righteousness, is the name of one of the canonical books of the Buddhist Sacred Scriptures. It consists of 423 stanzas. These are reputed to be the very words of the Buddha himself. The Dhamma-pada Commentary, composed by an unknown author in Ceylon about 450 a. d., purports to tell the circumstances under which Buddha uttered each one of these stanzas. In telling them, it narrates 299 stories or legends. These stories are the preponderating element of the Commentary, and it is these which are here translated.