Jataka Tales
Selected and Edited with Introduction and Notes

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Introduction
Abbreviations
1. The little gildmaster
2. The king and the stick-gatherer
3. King Makhādeva's grey hairs
4. The cold half of the month
5. The feast for the dead
6. The monkeys and the ogre
7. The guilty dogs
8. The discontented ox
9. The peacock's wooing
10. The fowler and the quails
11. The oldest of the animals
12. The crane and the crab
13. The haughty slave
14. The pigeon and the crow
15. The foolish friend
16. The stupid monkeys
17. The robbers and the treasure
18. Great King Goodness
19. Prince Five-Weapons
20. The Brahmin's spell
21. The value of a brother
22. The grateful animals
23. The great dreams
24. The converted miser
25. The valiant dwarf
26. The stolen jewels
27. The too-clever merchant
28. The loquacious brahmin
29. The three fishes
30. The lucky sneeze
31. The hypocritical jackal
32. The golden goose
33. The grateful mouse
34. The treacherous chameleon
35. The cunning jackal
36. The foolhardy jackal
37. The foolish crows
38. The greedy jackal caught
39. The rash magician
40. The two good kings
41. The grateful elephant
42. The pet elephant
43. The mongoose and the snake
44. The jackal betrayed by his howl
45. The penny-wise monkey
46. The incomparable archer
47. The magic treasures
48. The ass in the lion's skin
49. The priest in horse-trappings
50. Ingratitude punished
51. The goblin city
52. The tell-tale parrot
53. The choice of a husband
54. The foolhardy crow
54. The woodpecker, tortoise, and antelope
55. The crocodile and the monkey
56. The brahmin and the acrobat
57. The tortoise and the geese
58. The stolen ploughshares
59. The hero's tasks
60. Defeating the king of death
61. The jackal's spell
62. The Judas-tree
63. The judgments of King Mirror-Face
64. The crab and the elephant
65. The owl as king
66. The elephant-trainer's luck
67. The wishing-cup
68. The jackal and the crow
69. The wolf's sabbath
70. The king and the fruit-girl
71. The woodpecker and the lion
72. The hare's self-sacrifice
73. Unasked-for advice
74. The flight of the beasts
75. The conceited mendicant
76. The impermanence of worldly joys
77. The testing of virtue
78. A king's life saved by spells
79. The heron's revenge
80. The lion and the bull
81. The quail's friends
82. Queen Sussondī
83. The betrayer betrayed
84. The cat and the cock
85. The language of animals
86. The theft of a smell
87. The lion in bad company
88. The otters and the jackal
89. The brahmin and the snake
90. The brahmin's revenge on the monkeys
91. The monkey's heroic heroic self-sacrifice
92. The adventures of the prince and his brother
93. The panther and the goat
94. The grateful parrot
95. The goblin's gift
96. The wise goat and the jackal
97. The ungrateful son
98. The ten slave-bretheren
99. Rāma and Sītā
100. The wicked step-mother
101. The lost charm
102. The prince's wooing and the throne of the Buddhas
103. The folly of garrulity
104. The hawks and their friends
105. The prince who could not laugh
106. A lost friend found by a song
107. King Sivi
108. The evils of strong drink
109. The white six-tusked elephant
110. The three wise birds
111. A king finds his friend through a song
112. The ugly bridegroom
113. The ineteen problems
Addenda
Index.

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