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 TABLE VIII.

JĀTAKAS ILLUSTRATED IN BAS-RELIEF ON THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS.

Arranged from General Cunningham's 'Stūpa of Bharhut.'

No. Plate Title inscribed on the stone. Title in the Jātaka Book.

1. xxv. Miga Jātaka. Nigrodha-miga Jātaka. 2. Nāga Kakkaṭaka 3. Yava-majhakiya Jātaka. 4. Muga-pakhaya Muga-pakkha 5. xxvi. Laṭuwa Laṭukikā 6. Cha-dantiya Chad-danta 7. Isi-siŋgiya Isa-siŋga 8. (?)Yambumane-ayavesi Andha-bhūta 9. xxvii. ?4 Kuruŋga-miga 10. Haŋsa Nacca 5 11. Kinara Canda-kinnara 6 12. ?4 Asadisa 13. ?4 Dasaratha 14. xliii. Isi-migo ?7 15. xlvi. Uda ?7 16. Secha Dūbhiya-makkaṭa. 17. xlvii. Sujāto gahuto Sujāta 18. Biḍala Kukuṭa Kukkuṭa 19. xlviii. Maghā-deviya Makhā-deva 8 20. Bhisa-haraniya ?7 21. xviii. Vitura-panakaya 9 Vidhūra 22. Janako Rāja Sivala Devi Janaka

1 Translated below, pp. 205, and foil. This is one of those which General Cunningham was unable to identify.

2 General Cunning-ham says (p. 52): "The former [Nāga Jātaka, i.e. Elephant Jātaka] is the correct name, as in the legend here represented Buddha is the King of the Elephants, and therefore the Jātaka, or Birth, must of necessity have been named after him." As I have above pointed out (p. xli), the title of each Jātaka, or Birth Story, is chosen, not by any means from the character which the Bodisat fills in it, but indifferently from a variety of other reasons. General Cunningham himself gives the story called Isī-singga Jātaka (No. 7 in the above list), in which the ascetic after whom the Jātaka is named is not the Bodisat.

3 Not as yet found in the Jātaka Book; but Dr. Bühler has shown in the 'Indian Antiquary,' vol. i. p. 305, that it is the first tale in the 'Vrihat Kathā' of Kshemendra (Table I. No. 34), and in the 'Kathā Sarit Sāgara' of Somadeva (Table I. No. 33), and was therefore probably included in the 'Vrihat Kathā' of Guṇadhya (Table I. No. 32).

4 The part of the stone supposed to have contained the inscription is lost.

5 Translated below, pp. 292, 293.

6 It is mentioned below, p. 128, and is included in the Mahāvastu (Table V.), and forms the subject of the carving on one of the rails at Buddha Gayā (Rajendra Lāl Mitra, pl. xxxiv. fig. 2).

7 Not as yet found in the Jātaka Book.

8 Translated below, pp. 186-188. See also above, p. lxiv.

9 There are four distinct bas-reliefs illustrative of this Jātaka.