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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Originally published in 1916, this book presents a selection from the Jatakas translated into English.