Part of the canon of sacred Buddhist literature. Traditional birth and death dates of Gautama are 563-483 BC. The Jataka tales are dated between 300 BC and 400 AD.
Many of the tales are set in or near Benares, now called Varanasi, a city in north central India on the Ganges River. One of the world's oldest cities, Varanasi is the most sacred place for Hindus. Buddhists and Muslims also have important religious sites nearby. According to tradition, Buddha began his teaching at Sarnath a short distance from this city.
Jataka Tales, like the tales of panchatantra, are very old and have a long tradition of being passed on from generation to generation. These stories are stories of wisdom, and morals written around 300 BC in a language called PALI, which were later translated and distributed to people across the world. These stories are mainly about past incarnations of Buddha, and are meant to teach the values of self-sacrifice, honesty, morality and other values to a common person. These tales shows how good ultimately wins over evil.
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