Buddhist Birth Stories, Or, Jātaka Tales : the Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant : Being the Jātakatthavannanā
The book Buddhist Birth Stories, Or, Jātaka Tales : the Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant : Being the Jātakatthavannanā was written by author Davids, T. W. Rhys (Thomas William Rhys), 1843-1922 Here you can read free online of Buddhist Birth Stories, Or, Jātaka Tales : the Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant : Being the Jātakatthavannanā book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Buddhist Birth Stories, Or, Jātaka Tales : the Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant : Being the Jātakatthavannanā a good or bad book?
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The Kshatriya caste is now predominant, I must be born in it, and Suddhodana the chief shall be my father." Thus he decided on the tribe. Then reflecting on the Mother, he thought, " The mother of a Buddha is not eager for love, or cimning after drink, but has fulfilled the Perfections for a himdred thousand ages, and from her birth upwards has kept the five Precepts unbroken. Now this lady Maha Maya is 1 In the seas snrronnding each continent (MahadTpa) there are five hun- dred islands. See Ha...rdy's Manual of Buddhism, p. 13. * Majjhima-desa, of which the commentator adds, " This is the country thus spoken of in the Vinaya," quoting the passage at Mahavagga, v. 13, 12, which gives the boundaries as follows : " To the E. the town Kajaggala, and beyond itMahasala; to the S.E. the river SalalavatI; to the S. the town Setakannika; to the W. the brahman town and district Thuna; and to the N. the Usiraddhaja Mountain." These are different from the boundaries of the Madhya Desa of later Brahminical literature, on which see Lassen's 'Indische Alterthumskunde,' vol.
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