The Bengali Ramayanas

The story of lti*ya Ca-ills:a again offers a close parallel to that of the NalinikaJataka, and one of the passages in which the monkey-king Vali admonished Rama is exactly like the one in the Mahn, Sutasoina Jittakat in which the ogre is censured by the Great Being. [...] 59-61 ; the promulgation of the divinity of Rama and of the superiority of the Brahmins, pp. [...] The more the poet forgets himself and loses himself in the life of the nation, the wider will be the circle of his admirers and the more lasting his performance. [...] What the date of the origin of the Dacaratha Jataka, is we cannot definitely ascertain, but from the manner in which the story is related, it is natural to surmise that the story was already an old one at the time of the Buddha. [...] By comparing the Epic with the letrend of the Buddhists one cannot but be struck by the improvement made on the crude story by the touch of one of the greatest of world's master minds.