THE JĀTAKA

OR

STORIES OF THE BUDDHA'S FORMER BIRTHS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE PĀLI BY VARIOUS HANDS

UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF

PROFESSOR E. B. COWELL.

VOL. I.

TRANSLATED BY

ROBERT CHALMERS, B.A.,

OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

[1895]

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, January, 2006, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.

TO

PROFESSOR T. W. RHYS DAVIDS, LL.D., PH.D.,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED

BY

HIS FRIEND AND PUPIL

THE TRANSLATOR