Recounts how Buddha came once as a monkey among the monkeys and gave his life to save them, and nineteen other Jataka stories which recount events in his different lives.
Contents
Monkey-bridge -- Guilty dogs -- Banyan -- Tortoise and the geese 00 Fairy and the hare -- Golden feathers -- Young parrot -- Empty lake -- Swan kingdom -- Master's test -- Two pigs -- Patient buffalo -- Sarabha -- Goblin town -- Great elephant -- Quarrelsome quails -- Forest fire -- End of the world -- Golden goose -- Noble horse.