Jātaka

Jātaka - Birth Stories (of the Buddha)

Comprises 547 poems / stories in mixed verse (gāthās) and prose recounted by the Buddha. In these birth stories are embedded moral principles and practices which the bodhisatta had observed for self-development and perfection to attain Buddhahood.

The text is divided into 22 books with the numbered books indicating the number of verses in the stories:

The Book of the Ones (Ja 1 to 150)

The Book of the Twos (Ja 151 to 250)

The Book of the Threes (Ja 251 to 300)

The Book of the Fours (Ja 301 to 350)

The Book of the Fives (Ja 351 to 375)

The Book of the Sixes (Ja 376 to 395)

The Book of the Sevens (Ja 396 to 416)

The Book of the Eights (Ja 417 to 426)

The Book of the Nines (Ja 427 to 438)

The Book of the Tens (Ja 439 to 454)

The Book of the Elevens (Ja 455 to 463)

The Book of the Twelves (Ja 464 to 473)

The Book of the Thirteens (Ja 474 to 483)

The Miscellaneous Book (Ja 484 to 496)

The Book of the Twenties (Ja 497 to 510)

The Book of the Thirties (Ja 511 to 520)

The Book of the Forties (Ja 521 to 525)

The Book of the Fifties (Ja 526 to 528)

The Book of the Sixties (Ja 529 to 530)

The Book of the Seventies (Ja 531 to 532)

The Book of the Eighties (Ja 533 to 537)

The Great Book (Ja 538 to 547)