Jātaka stories found in the commentaries compiled in the Mahāvihāra in Sri Lanka. This forms the basis for standard account of the lives of the Buddha in Theravāda Buddhism. Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya. While all the Vinayas contain some narrative, this text—extant in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese—includes a full life of the Buddha, replete with abundant legendary narrative. Abhiniṣkramana Sūtra. Despite the fact that these texts emerged in different schools over a long period, in different literary forms, they each share a range of motifs in the Buddha's life that is not found in the early texts. Such motifs include: The Buddha's mother, Māyā, dreaming of a white elephant. Lotuses springing up under the feet of the bodhisattva as he walked immediately after birth. Various encounters with Devadatta and others as a child. Seeing the four signs. The bodhisattva leaving his wife and child, often on the night of the birth. The bodhisattva's horse, Kaṇṭhaka, who carried him away, but later died of grief. Meeting a hunter and exchanging robes. Floating the bowl upstream. The offering of milk rice by Sujātā. The attack by Māra's armies. The earth goddess witnessing the bodhisattva's past practice. Many of these motifs are represented in early artwork, and one of the motivating factors in such developments was to present the teachings in a way that could form a dramatic personal story, which could be visually represented. For example, the Padhāna Sutta, an early text, depicts the assault of Māra in purely psychological terms, while the developed versions imagine a vast army of demons attacking the Buddha, an image which is frequently depicted in Buddhist artwork. These later works also show a much greater emphasis on the miraculous and extraordinary character of the Buddha, as they depict him more like a godlike being in contrast to the earlier texts. These developments in the mythology have their counterparts in the more philosophical texts, where the Buddha is conceived as omniscient and with trascendental powers (lokuttara). Other Indian Buddhist myths Past and future Buddhas Buddhist mythology contains legends of the Buddhas of past ages, such as Vipassi. An important source for these is the Pali Theravāda Buddhavamsa (Buddha Chronicle) which chronicles the stories of 24 past Buddhas. Buddhist works also include a wide range of prophetic myths, which speak of future events. As with the Jātakas, there are a few such stories in the early texts. The most famous