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The tripitaka also contains the first large collection of fairy tales, the Jatakas. This work originates from Ceylon, and is not written in Sanskrit, but in the Palava spoken in southern India.

Besides tile great works of purely religious content there evolved epics in Sanskrit: the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Tile former chiefly deals with the struggic between two families of the Bharata clan, the Pandavas and the Kauravas. The work consists of 200.000 couplets; but fragments of sacred Hindu texts and meditations on religion and philosophy are also included.

In the first. centuries of the Christian era sea-borne trade bgan to Jevelrap between the countries of southern iind castei n Asia. In many places Indiiii commercial settlements sprang up: at first along the coast of Furd;er ladia (e.g. Funaii and Champa), and !atei also in the Indian commercial Mala-an peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Java. These settlements

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