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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0113 00341
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/792156
Country:
Thailand
City (Province):
Nan
Name of collection:
Wat Monthian
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Anonymous
Subject matter:
Jataka
Copyist:
Phra (monk) Palat Panyasan
Copying date in native date:
Anonymous
Copying date in Gregorian:
1924
Place of copying:
Wat Monthian, Nan
Script:
Dhamma Lan Na
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript paper dimension:
5 x 57.2 cm
Text block dimension:
3.5 x 49.5 cm
Number of pages:
32 pages
Number of blank pages:
2 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Good
Description of manuscript content:
Once upon a time, the Buddha gave his past life as a case study to teach the Bhikkhus. There was a widow who was a weaver and a farmer. She drank a water from elephant’s footprints and then got pregnant. She gave birth to a son named “Gaddhanakumāra.” When the son grew up. He took a good care of his mother. One day he went to dig up sweet potatoes and met Yakkha “giant.” He fought with the giant and won the fight. The giant offered a magic object and told him the map where the treasure was preserved. The giant suggested that that place would be a shrine of Buddhadhātu “bone of the Buddha” in the future. After that, the king of Śriṣakeṣa city invited Gaddhanakumāra and his mother to live in the city.
Other notes:
(Left side of the first folio) “Kaddhana, first fascicle”.

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
คัทธฯนกุมาร ผูก 1
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Gatthanakumāra, Phūk I
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Gatthanakumāra, First fascicle
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Pali; Lan Na
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