Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Ancient India: Kings, Farmers and Towns

Question:

Around the middle of the first millennium C.E., the 'Jatakas' were written in ______.

Options:

Pali

Prakrit

Sanskrit

Devnagiri

Correct Answer:

Pali

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) → Pali

Around the middle of the first millennium C.E., the 'Jatakas' were written in PALI.

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.