Ven anandajoti has an edited complete file
https://ancient-buddhist-texts.net/English-Texts/Jataka/index.htm
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I have created an all in one file for the jātaka tales by E. B. COWELL with all six volumes in a single txt file. With this file, you can search for your favorite keywords without needing to jump into six different volumes for each search.
Update: In addition to txt, I added pdf, mobi and epub as well.
You can download it here:
You might be interested in Bhante Ānandajoti’s revised/corrected version of the Cowell translation:
https://ancient-buddhist-texts.net/English-Texts/Jataka/index.htm
I recommend Bhante Ānadajoti’s version. The cowell version used other European languages for the sexy/ rated R stories.
Yes… of course Bhante Anandajoti’s version is best. The problem is, that it is not very easy to find his stuff even when you know it is there somewhere.
I looked at his website yesterday before making my own.
I have spoken to him many times about how his website is not easy to find the right documents. For instance, if you search for Buddhist Legends, you won’t get his updated version. It will bring you to the old book. If you jump to fast, you will miss the notice.
I told him to remove the old book from that page, and place it in a new page. I told him to line both old and new versions only… but he does not listen to me.
He also refuses to seo the book as Buddhist Legends and calls it the Dhammapada commentary.
In any case. As a solution, I told him I will download the books and then put back on archive and then feature them on my americanmonk website which has good google seo rankings.
This was all sort of related, but again, I could not find his Jataka book.
Instead I found a pali / english version of the mula text. So I assumed it was not there.
If I cannot find it, then other people will have problems. However, the venerable does not believe the same way.