Mahakapi Jataka in Bharhut, 2nd century BCE.Mahakapi Jataka in Sanchi. The Buddha, in a previous life as the king of 80.000 monkeys, helps them flee and travel a stream with his own body. 1st century BCE.[1]
The Mahakapi Jataka is one of the Jataka tales or stories of the former lives of the Buddha, when he was still a Bodhisattva, as a monkey king [2]
^Marshall p.70
^Jataka Or Stories of the Buddha's Former Birth, Volumes 1 to 2, E. B. Cowell, Asian Educational Services, 2000 p.37
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