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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0062 00020
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/627724
Country:
Laos
City (Province):
Luang Prabang
Name of collection:
Vat Manorom Sattharam
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Anonymous
Subject matter:
Jataka
Copyist:
Anonymous
Copying date in native date:
BE 2500, a ma mia year (the year of the Horse)
Copying date in Gregorian:
1957
Place of copying:
Luang Prabang
Script:
Lao Buhan (Old Lao)
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
Yes
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
55.1 x 5.4 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
55.1 x 5.4 cm
Text block dimension:
51.7 x 3.7 cm
Number of pages:
24 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Good
Description of manuscript content:
Kinnali or kinnari (a half-man and half bird creature). Once King Phommathat of Benares travelled lonely into the Himalaya Forest for hunting, he saw a kinnali who was so beautiful staying with her husband, kinnala. He had suddenly fallen in love with her and wanted her to become his own wife. Thus, he shot her husband with his archer and persuaded her to become his wife. Kinnali rejected his offer. Moreover, she condemned him as a bad man. She stayed alongside her husband and cried. When the king went away, Indra came and poured the holy water on kinnala, then he revived.
Colophon:
ລານທີ່ 12 ໜ້າ 1: ລິດຈະນາແລ້ວເວລາ 5 ໂມງແລງ ເດືອນຈຽງ ຂຶ້ນ 8 ຄ່ຳ ພຸດທະສັງກາດ 2500 ປີມະເມຍ. Folio 12 on the recto side: The writing of this manuscript was finished in the afternoon at 5.00 o’clock. On the eighth day of the waxing moon of the first lunar month, BE 2500, a ma mia year (year of the horse).

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
ສະໝາດກິນນະລີ
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Samāt Kinnalī
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Samat Kinnali
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Pali; Lao
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