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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0113 00546

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/792361

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 (nonk) Chantarasa

Copying date in native date:

12,

Copying date in Gregorian:

1886

Place of copying:

Anonymous

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript paper dimension:

5 x 53 cm

Text block dimension:

4.3 x 44 cm

Number of pages:

22 pages

Number of blank pages:

3 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

Sakkapabba or Sakkaban (the section on Sakka or Indra) is the tenth section of the 13 sections of Veassantara Jataka. The content mentions Sakka or Indra transformed as a Brahmin and bagged Princess Maddi from Vessantara. Vessantara gave Maddi to the Brahmin. Then the Bramin gave Maddi back and also eight blessings to Vessantara such as may the people of the Sivi city forgive him and invite him back home.

Colophon:

สระเด็จแล้ววันอาทิดแก่ข้าแล เดือนปากเล้ม ออก 12 ฅ่ำ ตัวบ่งามสะน้อย ฯ หน้าธับปาย สักกบันแลที่ไหว้เหิย จันทรัสสภิกษุริกขิตตะแล ฯ The copying [of this manuscript] was completed on a Sunday. My handwriting was not beautiful. Phra Cantharatsa was the scribe.

Other notes:

(The left side of the first folio) “Sakkapabba”.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

สักกฯบัร์พฯ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Sakkapabba

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Sakkapabba (Phra Indra)

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Lan Na