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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0011 00914
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/537542
Country:
Laos
City (Province):
Luang Prabang
Name of collection:
Vat Maha That Rasabovoravihan
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Xiang (ex-novice) Phumma
Subject matter:
Buddhist literature
Copying date in native date:
ອອກໃໝ່ 1 ຄໍ່າ ເດືອນ 5 ຈຸນລະສັງກາດ 1202 ຕົວປີ ກົດໃຈ້
Copying date in Gregorian:
1840 April 03
Place of copying:
Luang Prabang
Script:
Tham Lao
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
4.5 x 56.8 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
4.5 x 56.8 cm
Text block dimension:
3.3 x 51.8 cm
Number of pages:
50 pages
Number of blank pages:
4 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Poor
Description of manuscript content:
While Ascetic Siddhartha was confronting with King Mara who asked for his seat, he could not find anyone who could be witness. Then the Ascetic thought of his prefections which he had performed in the past. He pointed his fingers to the earth and invoked Mother Earth to be his witness. Suddenly, the mother earth came up and queezed her hair where the water pouring out and flooding the Mara and his troops.
Colophon:
Folio 25 on the recto side: In Culasakkarat (CS) 1202, a kot chai year, on the first waxing day of the fifth [lunar] month, the fifth day of the week (Thursday), a kat mot day. The writing of this manuscript had been finished in the morning between 6.00-7.30 o’clock. Xiang (Mr. ex-novice) Phomma had the religious faith to sponsor the making of this manuscript entitled Pathomsompot, to support the Teachings of the Buddha to last until the end of 5 thousand years. Nibbāna paccayo hotu no dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ. (May this be a condition for us to reach Nirvana, certainly).

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
ປະຖົມສົມໂພດ (ຜູກ 12)
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Pathama Sambodhi (Phuk 12)
Item 1 - Title in English script:
The First Enlightenment (fascicle 12)
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Pali, Lao
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