This is Volume IX of sixteen in a series on Buddhism. Originally published in 1880, this study offers the first part of the oldest collection of folk-lore, the Jataka Tales. Translated from Pali.

T.W. Rhys Davids

Translator's Introduction, Part I The Book of Birth Stories and their Migration to the West Part II The Birth Stories in India, The Ceylon Compiler's Introduction called the Nidana Katha, The Birth Stories.