Jātaka

collection of traditional narratives of the previous lives of Buddha before his last life as Gautama
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Jātaka

Summary

Jātaka is a Buddhist text[1]. Jātaka ranks in the top 1% of buddhist_text entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (344 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Jātaka authored various authors[3].
  • Jātaka's instance of is recorded as Buddhist text[4].
  • Jātaka's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • Jātaka's genre is recorded as fable[6].
  • Jātaka's follows is recorded as Therigatha[7].
  • Jātaka's followed by is recorded as Niddesa[8].
  • Jātaka's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 183470293[9].
  • Jātaka's GND ID is recorded as 4162719-2[10].
  • Jātaka's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85069776[11].
  • Jātaka's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12115293d[12].
  • Jātaka's IdRef ID is recorded as 029550416[13].
  • Jātaka's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00628609[14].
  • Jātaka's part of is recorded as Khuddaka Nikaya[15].
  • Jātaka's Commons category is recorded as Jātaka[16].
  • Jātaka's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01c_q0[17].
  • Jātaka's Open Library ID is recorded as OL8666050W[18].
  • Jātaka's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph175763[19].
  • Jātaka's has edition or translation is recorded as Jatak (Volume 1)[20].
  • Jātaka's has edition or translation is recorded as Jatak (Volume 2)[21].
  • Jātaka's has edition or translation is recorded as Jatak (Volume 3)[22].
  • Jātaka's has edition or translation is recorded as Jatak (Volume 5)[23].
  • Jātaka's has edition or translation is recorded as Jatak (Volume 4)[24].
  • Jātaka's has edition or translation is recorded as Jatak (Volume 6)[25].
  • Jātaka's has edition or translation is recorded as Jatak (Volume 5)[26].
  • Jātaka's has edition or translation is recorded as Jatak (Volume 4)[27].

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Works and Contributions

Jātaka authored various authors[3].

Why It Matters

Jātaka ranks in the top 1% of buddhist_text entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (344 views/month).[2] Jātaka has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Jātaka is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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