The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories

by Aryasura

EN·~11 hours·41 chapters

Chapters

41 total

Transcriber's Notes:

0:43

THE GÂTAKAMÂLÂ

0:12

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

23:17

INTRODUCTION

19:49

Introductory Stanzas.

1:09

I. The Story of the Tigress.

12:39

II. The Story of the King of the Sibis.

21:12

III. The Story of the Small Portion of Gruel.

9:40

IV. The Story of the Head of a Guild.

9:17

V. The Story of Avishahya, the Head of a Guild.

12:42

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Duration

~11 hours (661K characters)

Series

Sacred books of the Buddhists, vol. 1

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Carlos Colón, Princeton Theological Seminary Library and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2014-09-28

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46984

Subjects

Gautama Buddha -- Pre-existence BQ

About the author

Aryasura

Remembered as a Sanskrit Buddhist poet, he is best known for turning the Buddha’s earlier lives into vivid, moral stories. His work helped make the Jataka tradition memorable not just as scripture, but as literature too.

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