TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

PART II. ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA .

THE NID?NAKATH? OR THE THREE EPOCHS .

GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE.

CHAPTER II. S?LAVAGGA. No. 11. LAKKHA?A J?TAKA. The Story of 'Beauty.'

CHAPTER IV. KUL?VAKAVAGGA. No. 31. KUL?VAKA J?TAKA. On Mercy to Animals.

INDEX.

THE OLDEST COLLECTION OF FOLK-LORE EXTANT:

BEING

THE JĀTAKATTHAVAṆṆANĀ,

For the first time Edited in the Original Pāli

By V. FAUSBÖLL,

AND TRANSLATED

By T. W. RHYS DAVIDS.

TRANSLATION.
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