Jatkamala
JĀTAKAMĀLĀ
Jātakamālā (Garland of Jātakas) is the title of a work by the poet ĀryaŚŪra (fourth century c.e.). The title was later adopted by other authors, such as Haribhaṭṭa (early fifth century) and Gopadatta (seventh or eighth century), each of whom gives a personal slant to his own selection of thirty-four legends about the Buddha's previous lives, refashioning them in a mixture of verse and prose. Fourteen of Haribhaṭṭa's retellings survive in the original Sanskrit (the entire work is available in Tibetan), and about half of Gopadatta's Garland has so far been retrieved from miscellaneous story collections in Sanskrit.
See also:Jātaka
Bibliography
Hahn, Michael. Haribhaṭṭa and Gopadatta: Two Authors in the Succession of Āryaśūra, on the Rediscovery of Parts of TheirJātakamālās, 2nd revised edition. Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1992.
Hahn, Michael, ed. Haribhaṭṭa's Jātakamālā. Wiesbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002.
Khoroche, Peter, trans. Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Ārya Śūra's Jātakamālā. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Peter Khoroche