Jataka bhanaka is mentioned to have been appointed even as early as the time of the Buddha.
据说，早在释迦文佛时代，就有专门指派的本生持诵师。

The Content of Jataka Stories and Its Feature Of Presentation in The Yungang Grottoes
云冈本缘故事雕刻内容及其特征

Poems of other genre are replete with allusions to incidents and personalities drawn from jataka stories.
其他流派的诗歌也充满了引自本生故事的事件，人物。

A Study on the Style and the Space of Jataka Murals in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes
敦煌莫高窟本生故事壁画的图式与空间研究

There is hardly any form of Sinhala literature which has not been fed by the well springs of jataka stories.
僧伽罗文学作品几乎都曾使用本生故事作为素材。