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082			_a294.382325 D459 W _b101092
100			_aMaitreyee Y. Deshpande
245			_aWorld View of Jataka Stories
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aDelhi _bNew Bharatiya Book Corporation _c2017
300			_a760
490			_aVolume 1 and 2
500			_aThe Doctrine of metempsychosis has played an important part in the history of the national character and religious ideas and we find that the Buddhist literature from the earliest times has always included the ages of the past as an authentic background to the founder's historical life as Gautama. The Jatakas are the stories of he Buddha's former birth and the character representing the Buddha in these stories is called the Bodhisatta or the Potential Buddha or the being who is destined to obtain enlightenment. T. W. Rhys-Davids says that the Jataka contains a record of the everyday life, and every-day thought, of the people among whom the tales were told: it is the oldest most complete, and most important collection of folk-lore extant.
650			_aBuddhism
650			_aJataka stories
650			_aJataka
650			_aTipiṭaka
650			_aKhuddakanikaya
650			_aSuttapiṭaka
942			_cBK