While residing at the Jetavana Monastery in Savatthi, the Buddha spoke about a peta (hungry ghost) named Pesakara who had ever been a weaver’s wife. When she was a human being, she was stingy. She scolded at 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.
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Folio 12 on the recto side: In Culasakkarat 3 thousand 1 (corresponding with CS 1301), a kat mao year, on the second waxing day of the tenth [lunar] month, a moeng sai day, a Sunday, the writing of this manuscript was finished at the time of the forenoon horn (9.00–10.30 o’clock). Chao Phaeng had the religious faith to sponsor the making of this manuscript entitled Maha Vibak to dedicate it to phò kam and mae wen (deceased persons or spirits who may come to harm us any time). May I experience only once. May I be released from all revenge. May I be released retribution by phò kam and mae wen in all of my lives. May I be reborn in a good place and reach the three states of happiness with Nirvāna as the ultimate goal, may all my wishes and desires come true. Nibbāna paccayo hotu not niccaṃ dhuvaṃ (May this be a condition for us to reach Nirvāna, constantly and certainly).