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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