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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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