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texts. It may be dated to 2nd century CE. The stories themselves are therefore quite ancient and may be among the first
Buddhist texts ever committed to writing, but this particular collection of them is not attested prior to the seventeenth century. Typically, the stories involve the Buddha
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A Sanskrit anthology of
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