Question

What do you mean by jatakas

Answer 1

Answer:

The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The future Buddha may appear as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates

Answer 2

any of the various stories of the former lives of the Buddha found in Buddhist literatures