Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.s1.t5.39

c8.s1.t5.39

∗ Some of these stories—hardly all—are so applied that their leading hero is identified with Buddha in one of his previous existences, and the other personages who appear with persons in Buddha's society or in the circles of his opponents. Later on new stories, but always with the same points, were invented by the hundred, or even old legendary matter has been wrought up in majorem Buddhæ gloriam; these make up a particular book of the sacred writings, the collection of the Jâtaka (stories of earlier births), cf., however, also my note to Suttavibhaṅga, Pâcittiya, 2, 1.