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Remarks on the Identification of Some Jataka Pictures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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While busying himself with reviewing, for this Bulletin, vols. iii–v of Professor von Le Coq' great work Die Buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien the present writer had an opportunity of making a somewhat closer acquaintance also with Professor Grünwedel's very important book Altbuddhistische Kultstätten in Chinesisch-Turkistan (1912). Various Passages of this work, and most specially pp. 65–75, contain interesting descriptions and pictures of Jātakas (or Avadānas) found in the different caves in Eastern Turkestān Visited by Herren Grünwedel and von Le Coq.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , February 1927 , pp. 493 - 503
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page 493 note 1 Cf. vol. iii, p. 814 sq.; vol. iv, p. 348 sq.
page 493 note 2 With this paper cf. also the short notices by Mlle Lalou in the J.A. 1925, ii, p. 333 sq.
page 494 note 1 Cf. picture No. 254 in Grünwedel.
page 494 note 2 But this later one seems to be less fitting our picture, and for the same reason as the Kāntivādijātaka.
page 494 note 3 In Chavannes, Cinq cents contes, i, p. 104 sq. Kunāla, the son of Aśoka, whose wicked stepmother had his eyes put out (cf. Divyávadāna, p. 382 sq.), has, curiously enough, been turned into a Bodhisattva.Google Scholar
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page 495 note 4 There are other pictures belonging to this Jātaka in Professor Grünwedel's book; cf. pp. 76, 116, and pl. 446, 447. In some of the pictures the animals seem to be jackals rather than tigers.
page 496 note 1 For references cf. M. Finot's edition of the Rāstrapālapariprcchā, p. viii.
page 497 note 1 Cf. Professor Grünwedel's index s.v. Klappenrock and Professor von Le Coq's Bilderatlas, p. 49.
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page 500 note 1 Cf. Dsanglun, ii, p. 65.Google Scholar
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