Phò òk Kanya; his wife Sao Suk; all their children from Pak Lueng village
Subject matter:
Buddhist tale
Copyist:
Novice Sombun from Hongsa district
Copying date in native date:
BE 2504, a kat pao year
Copying date in Gregorian:
1961
Place of copying:
Vat Pak Lueng, Chomphet district
Script:
Tham Lao
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
Yes
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
52.1 x 5.0 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
52.1 x 5.0 cm
Text block dimension:
49.5 x 3.7 cm
Number of pages:
46 pages
Number of blank pages:
1 page
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Poor
Description of manuscript content:
While residing at the Jetavana Monastery in Savatthi, the Buddha spoke about a peta (hungry ghost) named Pesakara who had been a weaver’s wife. When she was a human being, she was stingy. She scolded her husband while offering food and robes to monks. After death, the husband was born as a deity living nearby a main road, and the wife was born as a ghost living nearby him. She was living without food and clothes and being burned and painful. When she asked for food and clothes from the deity, the food became excrement, and the clothes became hot metal sheets.