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4. TlRn ( J a t a k a ) I. a bir th story, the stories of the Buddba ‘3“
previous lives. 2. Birth Stories” ; name of the tenth division of the Khuddaka
Nikaya’
5. Jataka ‘( nt. ) ( ’Jata + Ka, belonging to, connected with what ha3
h a p p e n e d ) 1. a bir th s tory as found in the earlier books. This is always the
story of a previous hir th of the Buddhays as a wise man of old. In this sense i t
occurs as the name of the 9 categories or varieties of the l i terary composition.
2. The story of any previous birth of the Buddha, esp. as an animal: In this sense
the word is not found in the 4 Nikayas, but it occurs on the Bharhut Tope (say, end
o f 3\
rd cent. B.C.], and is freguent in the Jataka book. 3. The name of a book in the
Pali Canon, containing the verses of Lhe 547 such stories, Jataka ‘(rn.) !Jata + ka,)
belonging to what has been bornI
6 . J a t a k a . - t h e t e n t h o f K u d d a k a N i k a y a s o f t h e S u t t a P i t a k a
containing tales of the former births of the Buddha. The Jataka also form3 one ofI
the nine angas or divisions of the Buddhals teaching, grouped according to the
subject matter. ‘The Canonica! book of the Jataka contains only verses, hut i t is
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almost certain that from the first there must have been handed down an oral
commentary giving the stories in prose. The commentary later developed into the
Jatakatthakatha. Some of the Jatakas have been included in a seperate composition,
called the Cariya Pitaka. It’is not possible to say when the Jataka in the present
form came into existence nor how many of these were among the original number.
In the t ime of the Cullaniddesa, there seem to have been five hundred Jatakas,
because reference is made to Pancajatakasatani. Bas - reliefs of the third century
have been f%,,ind i l lustrat ing a number of Jataka stories, and they presuppose the
existence of a prose collection.
Several Jatakas exist in the canonical books which are not included in
the Abhidhamma pitaka. TI-r- Jataka consist of twenty two sections or nipatas.’
7. Jataka, nt. a birth story. adj . bron ; arisen.7
s G.P. Malalasekera. Dictionary of Pali Proper Names ( London : Luzac 8;
Company Ltd., 1960), pp. 951-952
7 A.P. Ruddhadattn. Concise Pali-English Dictionary (Colombo : The Colombo
Apothecaries’ Co., L t d . , lw9, p . 110.4
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” W T Francise a n d E.J. .1 op.cit. See Introduction.
23 Ibid, See Introduction.
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