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    (Sīhacamma Jātaka) The Banyan Deer The Cock and the Cat (Kukkuṭa Jātaka) The Crab and the Crane The Elephant Girly-Face The Monkey King (Mahakapi Jataka) The...
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    Mṛga-jātaka Mayūra-jātaka Śyāma-jātaka Hasti-jātaka Candra-jātaka Mṛga-jātaka Kanakavarma-jātaka Mūlika-jātaka Kinnarīsudhana-jātaka Jājvali-jātaka Keśava-jātaka...
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    Dasaratha Jataka (Pali: Dasaratha Jātaka) is a Jataka tale found in Buddhist literature about a previous life of the Gautama Buddha. It is found as 461th...
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    The Mahakapi Jataka is one of the Jataka tales or stories of the former lives of the Buddha, when he was still a Bodhisattva, as a king of the monkeys...
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  • nativity, the other two being Horā Ratnaṃ and Jātaka Bharaṇaṃ. Jataka Parijata (Devanāgarī: जातक पारिजात, IAST: jātaka pārijāta) is written in Sanskrit in the...
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    Syama Jataka, Sama Jataka, Sovannasam Cheadok or Suwannasam Chadok is the third of the Jataka tales in the collection of Ten Jataka or Mahanipata Jataka, which...
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    elected Brahmadatta of the Darīmuka Jātaka having been a Māgadhī prince, the king of Kāśī in the Dummedha Jātaka and his son being both named Brahmadatta...
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  • Brihat Jataka or Brihat Jatakam or Brihajjatakam (Sanskrit: बृहज्जातकम्), is one of the five principal texts written by Varāhamihira, the other four being...
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    The Vessantara Jātaka is one of the most popular jātakas of Theravada Buddhism. The Vessantara Jātaka tells the story of one of Gautama Buddha's past lives...
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    Rishyasringa (category Jataka tales)
    and rebuked by his father. He then repents for his actions. Jātaka 523, the Alambusā Jātaka, also recounts a similar story of Isisinga, in one other previous...
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    the summarized Paññāsa Jātaka, and Paññāsajātak Samrāy, a commentary on the Paññāsa Jātaka in four volumes. Cambodian Jataka stories of Buddha's lives...
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    ပဘာဝတီ) was a princess of Madda Kingdom and figure in the Buddhist tale Kusa Jātaka. She was one of the eight daughters of King Madda of Sāgala and the wife...
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  • The Mahānipāta Jātaka, sometimes translated as the Ten Great Birth Stories of the Buddha, are a set of stories from the Jātaka tales (in the Khuddaka...
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    Southeast Asian folktale, and also an apocryphal Jātaka Tale, the Rathasena Jātaka of the Paññāsa Jātaka collection. It is one of the stories of the previous...
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  • Sembiyan. This name was assumed by many Chola kings. Jātaka List of Jatakas Mahanipata Jataka Paññāsa Jātaka Shibi (king) Sharma, Arvind (15 April 2014). "The...
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  • Ramayanam Shree (Telugu) Tenali Ramakrishna Veernaari Jhansi Lakshmi Bathuku Jataka Bandi Drama Juniors Telugu (Season 1–7) Konchem Touch Lo Unte Chepta (Season...
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  • The Jataka Tales. "21 June 2021". D. L. Ashliman. Archived from the original on 2019-10-05. Guttila Jātaka (No.243) (21 June 2021). "Guttila Jātaka (No...
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    to seize a nāga by the tail and force him to vomit up his stone (Pandara Jātaka, J.518). Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names, Volume 1, by Gunapala Piyasena...
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  • Yavanajataka (redirect from Yavana-jātaka)
    The Yavanajātaka (Sanskrit: yavana 'Greek' + jātaka 'nativity' = 'nativity according to the Greeks'), written by Sphujidhvaja, is an ancient text in Indian...
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    Eastern wall. Mahājanaka Jātaka (2/539) and Sāma Jātaka (3/540). Designed by Sompop Budtarad.: 78  Southern wall. Mahosadha Jātaka (5/546). Designed by Sompop...
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    "The Cautionary Tale of Sorcerer's Broom" on YouTube Jātaka story no. 150, "Sañjīva Jātaka", The Jataka, Volume I, translated by Robert Chalmers, 1895 – via...
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    Jataka tale by co-depicting animals and attendants in the same scene. Vessantara Jataka: the story of the generous king Vessantara Shaddanta Jataka:...
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    "Honour". She appears in several texts, including the Sudhābhojana Jātaka and the Mañjarī Jātaka of the Mahāvastu. It is also the name of a yaksha that may be...
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  • and gentleness" (khantisoraccassa). In a Jātaka tale, Exposition on Patience Birth Story (Khanti-vaṇṇana-jātaka: J 225), the Buddha tells of a former life...
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    for the protection of the Buddhadharma. Many Jatakas also mentions various Rishis. The Naḷinikā Jātaka (Jā 526) introduces a past life of the Buddha...
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    the world of the devas. This term seems to be absent in the corresponding jātaka. It is possible that these deities are associated with the ganas of Hinduism...
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    pp. 825–826. ISBN 978-81-208-3021-9. E.B. Cowell; WHD Rouse (1901). The Jātaka: Or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births. Cambridge University Press....
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  • Seri-Vanija Jathaka is one of the five hundred and fifty jatakas of the Buddha. A Jataka (Pali: ජාතක - means Birth) is any of the stories of former lives...
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  • Four harmonious animals (category Jataka tales)
    same Jātaka tale is found in the Vinaya and Jātaka collections. The Dharmaguptaka and Mahīśāsaka orders did not consider the story part of the Jātaka, however...
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  • Amaraja of Anandapura A didhiti by Indradattopadhyaya or Indradatta Upadhyaya Jātaka-paddhati, also known as Śrīpati-paddhatiḥ (Shripati-paddhati), is an 8-chapter...
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