Excerpt from More Jataka Tales The continued success of the Jataka Tales, as retold and published ten years ago, has led to this second and companion volume. Who that has read or told stories to children has t been lured on by the subtle flattery of their cry for more ? Dr. Felix Adler, in his Foreword to Jataka Tales, says that long ago he was captivated by the charm of the Jataka Tales. Little children have t only felt this charm, but they have discovered that they can read the stories to themselves. And so More Jataka Tales were found in the volume translated from the Sanskrit into English by a group of Cambridge scholars and published by the University Press. The Jataka tales, regarded as historic in the Third Century B.C., are the oldest collection of folk-lore extant. They come down to us from that dim for-off time when our forebears told tales around the same hearthfire on the roof of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.