Collection of traditional narratives of the previous lives of Buddha before his last life as Gautama

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Jātaka-mālā / Ārya-Śūra-viracitā ; VaidyopāhvaśrīParaśurāmaśarmaṇā ślokasūcyādibhiḥ saṃskṛtā.

The Jātaka, or, Stories of the Buddha's former births / translated from the Pāli by various hands under the editorship of E.B. Cowell.

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Jataka stories

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Jātaka-mālā / Ārya-Śūra-viracitā ; VaidyopāhvaśrīParaśurāmaśarmaṇā ślokasūcyādibhiḥ saṃskṛtā.

The Jātaka, or, Stories of the Buddha's former births / translated from the Pāli by various hands under the editorship of E.B. Cowell.