What do you mean by Jatakas ? Narrate one example to show the relationship of kings and his subjects?

What do you mean by Jatakas ? Narrate one example to show the relation

1.	What do you mean by Jatakas ? Narrate one example to show the relationship of kings and his subjects?
Answer» Solution :Jatakas are stories probably originated as popular oral tales that we later committed to writing. The Jatakas were written in Pali AROUND the middle of the FIRST millenium CE. The relationship of kings and his subjectsare as follows: (i) The story known as the Gandatindu Jataka which DESCRIBES the plight of subjects of a wicked king, these include elderly woman and men. cultivators, Herders,village boys and even animals. (iii) To escape from the situation, people abandoned their village and went to live in the forest, the story INDICATES that the relationship between the king and his subjects especially the rural population. (iv) The kings frequenty tried to fill their coffers by demanding high taxes, which the peasants found oppressive which led there escaping to the forests as reflected in the Jataka story.