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The Mahavastu (great story)

by J. J. Jones | 1949 | 305,330 words | ISBN-10: 086013041X

This page describes volume ii which is of the English translation of the Mahavastu (“great story”), dating to the 2nd-century BC. This work belongs to the Mahasanghika school of early Buddhism and contains narrative stories of the Buddha’s former lives, such as Apadanas, Jatakas and more..

Volume II

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Foreword to the second volume
Chapter I - The birth of Gotama
Chapter III - Gotama’s youth
Chapter II - Asita and the young Gotama
Chapter IV - Mañjarī-jātaka
Chapter V - Godhā-jātaka (Jātaka of the Lizard)
Chapter VI - The gift of a necklace to Yaśodharā
Chapter VII - Yaśodharā as a tigress (vyāghrī)
Chapter VIII - The Wooing of Yaśodharā
Chapter IX - The Story of Dharmapāla
Chapter X - The Śarakṣepa-jātaka (story of the arrow that was shot far)
Chapter XI - The Jātaka of Amarā (the smith’s daughter)
Chapter XII - The Jātaka of Śiri
Chapter XIII - The Kinnarī Jātaka
Chapter XIV - The great renunciation
Chapter XV - The dreams of Śuddhodana and others
Chapter XVI - The great renunciation again
Chapter XVII - Śyāmā Jātaka
Chapter XVIII - Jātaka of Campaka (the Nāga king)
Chapter XIX - Gotama’s early wanderings
Chapter XX - Śyāmaka Jātaka
Chapter XXI - Jātaka of Śiriprabha (the deer)
Chapter XXII - The temptation by Māra
Chapter XXIII - Jātaka of the Bird (Śakuntaka)
Chapter XXIV - Jātaka of the Tortoise (Kacchapa)
Chapter XXV - Jātaka of the Monkey (Markaṭa)
Chapter XXVI - Jātaka of the Bird (Śakuntaka) (2)
Chapter XXVII - Jātaka of Surūpa (king of the deer)
Chapter XXVIII - The first Avalokita-sūtra
Chapter XXIX - Anaṅgaṇa Jātaka
Chapter XXX - The second Avalokita-sūtra
Chapter XXXI - The final defeat of Māra
Chapter XXXII - The Kuśa-jātaka

The second volume and part of the third [may correspond] to the Avidūrenidāna of his more recent history from his birth to his enlightenment.