The Jatakas offer insights into the thoughts and experiences of who among the following? |
Rulers and political leaders Religious figures and saints Ordinary people and subjects Only women |
Ordinary people and subjects |
The correct answer is Option 3 - Ordinary people and subjects What did subjects think about their rulers? Obviously, inscriptions do not provide all the answers. In fact, ordinary people rarely left accounts of their thoughts and experiences. Nevertheless, historians have tried to solve this problem by examining stories contained in anthologies such as the Jatakas and the Panchatantra. Many of these stories probably originated as popular oral tales that were later committed to writing. The Jatakas were written in Pali around the middle of the first millennium CE. |