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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0113 00589
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/792404
Country:
Thailand
City (Province):
Nan
Name of collection:
Wat Monthian
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Phra (monk) Inthawichai; his parents; all his relatives
Subject matter:
Jataka
Copyist:
Anonymous
Copying date in native date:
9, 10 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1256
Copying date in Gregorian:
1894
Place of copying:
Anonymous
Script:
Dhamma Lan Na
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript paper dimension:
4.5 x 58.5 cm
Text block dimension:
3.5 x 51 cm
Number of pages:
14 pages
Number of blank pages:
3 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Good
Description of manuscript content:
Culavana or Cullapon, meaning ‘a small forest’ is the sixth episode of the 13 episodes of the Vessantara Jataka and tells of a Brahmin called Jūjaka who was walking to Mount Vamka to ask Prince Vessantara for the two kumara (young prince and princess), Jali and Kanha. On his way, Jūjaka meets the hunter, Jetaputta. When he was chased by the hunter’s dogs, he climbed up a tree where he tricked the hunter by telling him that he was a royal emissary sent to invite Prince Vessantara. The hunter trusted him and showed him the way to Vamkata.
Colophon:
สักราศ 1256 ตัว ปลีกาบสง้า สมณสธา อินทรัสสภิกขุ พร้อมกับด้วยพ่อแม่พี่น้องชู่ผู้ชู่ฅน ส้างยังรัสสธัมมเทสนาเจ้าดวงชื่อว่าปาฬีเวสสันตระเพื่อไว้ค้ำชูสาสนา ตราบ 5000 วัสสา ขอหื้อผู้ข้าทังหลายได้หว้ายรอดจอดเถิงเวียงแก้วมหานัคคเนรัพพานในอนาคตกานอันจักมาพายหน้า ยาคาตยาคานั้นจุ่งจักมีเที่ยงแท้ดีหลีเทิอะ ฯ The writing of this manuscript Pali Vessantara was completed in CS 1256, a kap sanga year by the donors – Phra Intha and his family – to ensure the continuation of the five-thousand-year Buddhist era. May all of us attain Nibbāna in the future. Remark: The year corresponds to 1894 CE.

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
จุลพ฿นฯ
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Culavana
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Culavana (The Small Forest)
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Pali
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