Ja 471: Mendaka Jātaka
Translated by W. H. D. Rouse
Edited by E. B. Cowell
Original edition: Cambridge University Press, volume 4, 1901
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The Problem of Mendaka will be given under the Ummagga Birth.

The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births, edited by E.B. Cowell, published by The Cambridge University Press.

Vol. 1, translated by Robert Chalmers, 1895.

Vol. 2, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, 1895.

Vol. 3, translated by H.T. Francis and R.A. Neil, 1897.

Vol. 4, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, 1901.

Vol. 5, translated by H.T. Francis, 1905.

Vol. 6, translated by E.B. Cowell and W.H.D. Rouse, 1907.

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