Amar Chitra Katha - The Giant and the Dwarf: A Jataka Tale

THE GIANT ANDTHE DWARF _A JATAKA TALE All living creatures die to be born again, so the Hindus believe. The Buddha was...

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THE GIANT ANDTHE DWARF _A JATAKA TALE

All living creatures die to be born again, so the Hindus believe. The Buddha was no exception. Legend has it that soveral lifatlmes as a Bodhisattva went into the making of the Buddha, the Enlightened The Bodhisattva came in many forms-man. monkey, deer. elephant, lion. Whatever his mortal body. he spread tho message of justice and wisdom, tempered With compaSsion. This wisdom. the WIS· dom of right thinking and right living, is preserved in the Jataka tales.

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India Book House Education Trust. Bombay·400 026 All 'ight& ItlSe,ved.

Published by H G. Mirchandani for India Book Hous. Education TrUll. Mahal8~mi Chambers. 22, Bhulabh3i Desai Aoed. Bombav·':OO 026 and printed by him at IBH Printer., Malol N~ka, M~thuradas lJissaoji Road. Aodhltli (East). Bombay-400 059

Editor: Anant Pai

Script: Luis M. Fernandes

Artworks: Souren Roy