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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0113 00820

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/792635

Country:

Thailand

City (Province):

Nan

Name of collection:

Wat Monthian

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Anonymous

Subject matter:

Jataka

Copyist:

Mr. Nan (ex-monk) Yana

Copying date in native date:

9, 11 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1281

Copying date in Gregorian:

1919 August 20

Place of copying:

Kòk Village, Nan

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

Yes

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

5 x 50 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

5 x 50 cm

Text block dimension:

4 x 41 cm

Number of pages:

10 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:

จุฬสักกพทะได้ 1281 ตัว ปลีกัดเม็ด เดือน 11 ลง 9 ฅ่ำ พร่ำว่าได้วัน 4 ยามกองงาย ค็เส็ดแล้วแล ฯ ขนารญานะ บ้านดอนกอก ลิกขิตแลเจ้าเหิย ฯ จุฬพน มี ๕ ใบ” ฯ In Cuḷasakarāja 1281, a kat met year, on the ninth waning-moon day of the eleventh [lunar] month, the fourth day of the week, at the time of the morning drum, I, Khanan (ex-monk) Yana who lives at Ban Dòn Kòk, finished writing [this manuscript]. Culavana, five folios in total. Remark: The date corresponds to Wednesday, 20 August 1919 (1281 Sravana 24).

Other notes:

(Front cover) “Front cover of Culavana, Tha Paen Ròm Version”. (Back cover) “Back cover of Culavana, Tha Paen Ròm Version”.

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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; Lan Na