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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0113 00824

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/792639

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) Kanchai

Copying date in native date:

12, 10 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1281

Copying date in Gregorian:

1919 September 19

Place of copying:

Anonymous

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:

24 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:

กันไชภิกขุลิกขิตตะ เดือน 12 ลง 10 ฅ่ำ วัน 6 แก่ข้าภะเจ้าแล้วแล ฯ I, Monk Kanchai, finished copying [this manuscript] on the tenth waning-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, the sixth day of the week.

Other notes:

(Front cover) “Front cover of Sakkapabba, Tha Paen Ròm Version, completed in Cūḷasakarāja 1281, a kat met year”. (Back cover) “Back cover of Sakkapabba, Tha Paen Ròm Version, completed in Cuḷasakarāja 1281, a kat met year, last folio”.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

สักกฯบัรพฯ์

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Sakkaban

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Sakkaban (The Sakka, Indra)

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Lan Na