Pak Chaek village, Pak U district, Luang Prabang province
Script:
Tham Lue
Writing support:
Palm-Leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
51.0 x 4.4 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
51.0 x 4.4 cm
Text block dimension:
46.5 x 4.0 cm
Number of pages:
40 pages
Number of blank pages:
2 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Good
Description of manuscript content:
On the way to Devadaha city, the great procession passed a garden called Lumbini Park. The beautiful park with its sala trees and scented flowers and busy birds and bees attracted Queen Sirimahamaya. Since the park was a good resting place, the queen ordered the bearers to stop for a while. As she rested underneath one of the sala trees, her birth began and a baby boy was born. It was an auspicious day. The birth took place on a full moon which is now celebrated as Vesak, the festival of the triple event of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, in the year 623 BC.
Colophon:
Lānthī 1 nā 1: Māi nāthap phāikhao süvā Pathamasamphot phūk 2 lae. Ajān Khanān Nantha khian laeo dὁi ton aiang khā lae. Phūkhā sai vai khamsū yang phuttha sāsanā 5000 pha vatsā khὁhü haksā man dī dae.
Lānthī 19 nā 1-2: Sadet laeo yām kὁng ngāi thae sū thiang lae sai pī moeng met sangkāt rāja dai phan 2 hὁi pāi 29 tua düan 7 haem 9 kham mü van 4 thai khā lae Ajān Khanān Nantha khian dὁi ton aiang khā sai vai khamsū sāsanā 5000 pha vatsā khὁhü thüng suk 3 pakān mī nipphān pen yὁt dae thoen phūkhā sai tham Pathamasamphot phūk 2 vai khamsū vὁlaphuttha sāsanā 5000 pha vatsā phūkhā chak phān thanā ao payā sapphanyūtayān pha phuttha chao sing diao lae.
Lānthī 20 nā 2: (written by blue pen) sen Pha Khamfan Chansīli Unkhamphὁn Bān Pākchaek thetsanā khὁp chüa nam phū fang. Tesanā thetsanā.
Māi nāthap phāipāi tham Pathamasamphot phūk 2 mī sāo bai thang nāthap lae noe khὁhü thu chao pha nāi haksā man dī dae noe sai yā sa nὁi.
Other notes:
This manuscript is the second fascicle of a series of ten fascicles holding DS no. DS 0056 00188 and 0056 00269 – 00277.