batch.motif.buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg-l2337-l2496
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label: ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA. / T. W. RHYS DAVIDS. / TABLE
I. / INDIAN WORKS.; lines 2337-2496
start: '2337'
end: '2496'
translation: Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A bibliographic table lists Indian and related works connected with the
history and migrations of Buddhist birth stories, including the Jātaka Atthavaṇṇanā,
Sinhalese and Elu versions, Buddhist scriptural collections, Sanskrit and Pāli
story collections, the Pañca Tantra, Hitopadeśa, Vetāla story cycles, Śuka Saptati,
Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśati, Vṛihat-kathā, and Kathā Sarit Sāgara, with editions, translations,
dates, languages, and stated relationships among works.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
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text: The passage is headed as a table illustrating the history and migrations of
Buddhist birth stories, specifically Indian works.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The Jātaka Atthavaṇṇanā is described as a collection of stories previously
existing, ascribed to the Buddha, and put into its present form in Ceylon in the
fifth century A.D.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Several Sinhalese or Elu works are presented as translations or poetical versions
of Jātaka material.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The Cariyā Piṭaka and the Jātaka Mālā are both described as containing thirty-five
of the oldest stories associated with the Jātaka collection.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The Pañca Tantra is listed with multiple edited texts and translations into
German, French, and Greek.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The Hitopadeśa is described as medieval and compiled principally from another
listed work, with additions from an unknown work.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati is described as twenty-five stories told by a Vetāla,
or demon, and multiple versions or translations are listed in Greek, Tamil, Brajbakha,
English, Hindustani, Mongolian, and German.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: obs:8
text: The Śuka Saptati is described as the seventy stories of a parrot, with Greek,
Persian-derived, Hindustani, and English versions listed.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:9
text: The Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśati is described as the thirty-two stories of the throne
of Vikramāditya, with Hindi, Bengali, and Mongolian versions listed.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:10
text: The Kathā Sarit Sāgara is described as founded on the Vṛihat-kathā and as
including the Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati and part of the Pañca Tantra.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
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- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Buddha
description: The Jātaka Atthavaṇṇanā stories are described as ascribed to the Buddha.
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- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
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name_or_label: Vetāla, or demon
description: A Vetāla, glossed in the passage as a demon, is said to tell the twenty-five
stories of the Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati.
role_refs:
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evidence_refs:
- ev:7
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name_or_label: Parrot
description: The Śuka Saptati is described as the seventy stories of a parrot.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Vikramāditya
description: The Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśati is described as the thirty-two stories of
the throne of Vikramāditya.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
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assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The listed Jātaka collection is said to contain stories ascribed to the Buddha.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: demonic storyteller
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati is described as stories told by a Vetāla, or demon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:3
label: animal-associated storyteller
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The Śuka Saptati is described as the seventy stories of a parrot.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:4
label: royal figure associated with throne stories
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśati is described as stories of the throne of Vikramāditya.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
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label: Vetāla or demon
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- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:2
label: Parrot
literal_form: parrot associated with seventy stories
associated_figures:
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taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:3
label: Throne of Vikramāditya
literal_form: throne
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes: []
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Stories ascribed to a sacred teacher
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Jātaka Atthavaṇṇanā is described as a collection of pre-existing stories
ascribed to the Buddha.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is bibliographic and does not narrate the stories themselves.
- id: motif:2
label: Demonic storyteller frame
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati is described as twenty-five stories told by a Vetāla,
or demon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: Only the framing description is given; no individual tale content is provided.
- id: motif:3
label: Animal storyteller frame
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Śuka Saptati is described as the seventy stories of a parrot.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives a title-level description only and does not describe
the parrot's narrative actions.
- id: motif:4
label: Royal throne story cycle
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: The Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśati is described as the thirty-two stories of the throne
of Vikramāditya.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: low
cautions: The royal-legitimacy connection is suggested only by the royal name and
throne title; the passage does not state a legitimating function.
- id: motif:5
label: Transmission and migration of story collections
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The table explicitly presents works, translations, adaptations, and inclusions
as illustrative of the history and migrations of Buddhist birth stories.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: This is a textual-transmission pattern rather than a narrative motif within
a mythic episode.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage treats multiple language forms of the Vetāla cycle as versions
or translations of the same listed work or its derivatives.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati / Vethāla Kathei / Bytal Pachisi / Baital Pachisi /
Siddi Kür and related versions
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage provides bibliographic relationships but does not compare
individual story contents.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage treats several versions of the Śuka Saptati as related manifestations
of a parrot-story cycle across languages.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Śuka Saptati / Tuti Nāmeh / Tota Kahani and related versions
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage lists textual descent or reproduction but gives no tale-level
parallels.
- id: claim:3
claim: The passage links the Kathā Sarit Sāgara with earlier story collections by
stating that it is founded on the Vṛihat-kathā and includes the Vetāla cycle and
part of the Pañca Tantra.
claim_level: same_function
target: Kathā Sarit Sāgara in relation to Vṛihat-kathā, Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati, and
Pañca Tantra
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is a textual inclusion/filiation claim, not evidence for shared
mythic origin.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 2337-2344
quote_or_summary: The heading presents tables illustrating the history and migrations
of the Buddhist birth stories and identifies this section as Table I, Indian works.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 2345-2351
quote_or_summary: The Jātaka Atthavaṇṇanā is described as a collection probably
first made in the third or fourth century B.C. from previously existing stories,
ascribed to the Buddha, and put into present form in Ceylon in the fifth century
A.D.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 2352-2371
quote_or_summary: Sinhalese and Elu works are listed as translations or poetical
versions of Jātaka material, including Pan Siya Panas Jātaka Pota, Guttila Kāwyaya,
Kusa Jātakaya, An Eastern Love Story, and Asadisa Jātakaya.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 2372-2378
quote_or_summary: The Cariyā Piṭaka and Jātaka Mālā are each described as containing
thirty-five of the oldest stories connected with the Jātaka collection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 2383-2394
quote_or_summary: The Pañca Tantra is listed with edited texts and translations
into German, French, and Greek.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 2395-2423
quote_or_summary: The Hitopadeśa is described as medieval and compiled principally
from No. 2 with additions from another unknown work, followed by a list of editions
and translations.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 2424-2428
quote_or_summary: The Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati is identified as twenty-five stories
told by a Vetāla, or demon, with a Sanskrit text location and a Greek version
noted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 2429-2450
quote_or_summary: Tamil, English, Brajbakha, Hindustani, Mongolian, and German versions
or adaptations of the Vetāla cycle are listed, including Vethāla Kathei, Bytal
Pachisi, Baital Pachisi, Vikram and the Vampire, and Siddi Kür.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 2451-2460
quote_or_summary: The Śuka Saptati is described as the seventy stories of a parrot,
with Greek, Persian-derived, Hindustani, and English versions listed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 2461-2470
quote_or_summary: The Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśati is described as the thirty-two stories
of the throne of Vikramāditya, also called Vikrama Caritra, with Hindi, Bengali,
and Mongolian versions listed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 2471-2496
quote_or_summary: The Vṛihat-kathā is attributed to Guṇādhya, and the Kathā Sarit
Sāgara is described as founded on it, including the Vetāla Pañca Viṃṣati and part
of the Pañca Tantra, with edition and authorship details.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage is a bibliographic table rather than a narrative passage. Extraction
is strongest for textual relationships and title-level frames; motif candidates
are limited and require human review.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
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No narrative scenes are present in the passage. Available taxonomy references were used only where directly supportable, with caution.
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