In ancient India, the Jatakas were written in which of the following languages, around the middle of the first millennium CE?
The correct answer is Pali.
The Jataka tales are a part of the Khuddaka Nikaya, one of the five Nikayas (collections) of the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the three main divisions of the Tripitaka. While the Buddha's original teachings might have been in a Magadhi-related Prakrit, Pali became the standard language for codifying and transmitting these teachings, especially after they were written down in Sri Lanka around the 1st century BCE. The commentaries and later additions to the Jataka tales were also primarily composed in Pali.
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