jataka

English

Alternative forms

  • Jataka

Etymology

From Sanskrit जातक (jātaka, “born under”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdʒɑːtəkə/

Noun

jataka (plural jatakas or jataka)

  1. (Buddhism) Any of a large number of Indian tales concerning the previous lives of Gautama Buddha.
    • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 4:
      In the centuries after the Buddha's life, many ordinary, non-literate Indians would have learned of him through Jatakas, popular morality tales about his imagined previous lives […]

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese jātaka, from Sanskrit जातक (jātaka, “born under”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /d͡ʒaˈtaka/ [d͡ʒaˈt̪a.ka]
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Syllabification: ja‧ta‧ka

Noun

jataka (plural jataka-jataka)

  1. (Buddhism) jataka (tales concerning the previous lives of Gautama Buddha)
  2. (literature, linguistics) Old Javanese fable
  3. (archaeology, architecture) the reliefs on the Borobudur temple, located on the main wall of the first-level corridor and the balustrades of the first and second levels, contain the story of the Bodhisattva who is reincarnated in various forms.

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