Jatkamala
J?TAKAM?L?
J?takam?l? (Garland of J?takas) is the title of a work by the poet ?rya??ra (fourth century c.e.). The title was later adopted by other authors, such as Haribha??a (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 Haribha??a'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:J?taka
Bibliography
Hahn, Michael. Haribha??a and Gopadatta: Two Authors in the Succession of ?rya??ra, on the Rediscovery of Parts of TheirJ?takam?l?s, 2nd revised edition. Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1992.
Hahn, Michael, ed. Haribha??a's J?takam?l?. Wiesbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002.
Khoroche, Peter, trans. Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: ?rya ??ra's J?takam?l?. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Peter Khoroche