A Note on the Jataka Tales 7

I have been perhaps a prey to circumlocution partly because I am bad at type writer and partly because I am not at home in computer Besides may be I cannot say my says in an organised fashion Be that as it may since Prakrit became the vehicle for two significant schools of thought the standard language Sanskrit was challenged in ancient India as early as in the 6th century BC But ironically enough at a later stage many of the Buddhist texts as well as Jaina texts were composed in Sanskrit. This speaks of Sanskritization. It has been observed that the people who apparently do not have any contact with Sanskrit tradition such as fisher men or barbers or hunters who live in the forests and who may have had discovered their own faiths and deities and who have their own rituals partly different from those of the higher castes Sanskritize their rituals and they call their priests who come from their own community Brahmins