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This selection of the Jatakas has been made with the purpose of bringing together the Jataka stories of the most widespread interest, in an easily portable edition.

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Fragments 16 and 25 are two long, relatively narrow fragments that obviously belong to the same scroll. Two texts were written on the scroll, each by a different scribe. The first text, referred to as the Gandhari London Dharmapada, represents an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition. The second text is a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of some of his disciples.

The Jataka contains stories that celebrate the previous lives of the Buddha. He may appear in these tales as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant - but in whatever form he takes, he exhibits a specific virtue. This is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1929 as part of the series "The Treasure House of Eastern Story."