This manuscript contains the Chronicle of Phra Thāt Dòn Tao (Lampāng province). A novice stayed overnight at an abandoned monastery and had a dream about a deity who told him that that place was holy and there was a golden plate of an inscription documenting an important story below a pile of bricks. On the next day the novice excavated the bricks and found a golden plate of four-inch length containing a story of the Buddha who gave a sermon to a giant. The giant became faithful and asked for 108 hairs of the Buddha to be enshrined at that place. People then visited and paid homage to the Buddha’s hair relics. They called that place Wat Phra Thāt Dòn Tao.
Other notes:
The front cover is white. The manuscript is severely damaged by insects.
(The inner flyleaf)
I put my hands together as a lotus above my head to pay homage to the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha, and my teachers. May the merit derived from copying this manuscript make me appreciated and loved by humans and deities, give me opportunities to make merit, donate, and observe the Buddhist precepts, and let me meet the future Buddha. May I attain the Nibbāna and escape from the Cycle of Rebirths.
This manuscript was copied from the older extant manuscript sponsored by Nāi Saeng Lòm from Bān Luang Pāng Mū, Mae Hòng Sòn, and copied by Còng Takā Kāng Nu in Cūḷasakarāja 1267, on the seventh day of waning moon of the seventh lunar month.
Remark: This date corresponds to Saturday, 24 June 1905 (1267 Jyestha 22).
Item 1 - Title in Native script:
တံၼၼ်ထတ်လွၼ်းတဝ်
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Tannān Datu Don Tāo
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Tannān Datu Don Tāo (The Chronicle of Phra Thāt Dòn Tao)