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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0113 00853

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/792668

Country:

Thailand

City (Province):

Nan

Name of collection:

Wat Monthian

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Anonymous

Subject matter:

Jataka

Copyist:

Anonymous

Copying date in native date:

12, 12 (lunar) Buddhist Era 2464

Copying date in Gregorian:

1921 September 28

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 46 cm

Text block dimension:

4 x 36 cm

Number of pages:

20 pages

Number of blank pages:

2 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:

ปริปุณณะแล้วยามตาวันเที่ยงแกล่ข้าแล พุทธสักกราชได้ 2464 ตัว ปลีเล้า เดือน 12 ลง 12 ฅ่ำ วัน 4 ปริปุณณะหั้นแล ฯ หนานนันตาตายเดือน 12 น่าน ลง 11 ฅ่ำ วัน 12 เอาไพฅว่าง ฝนตกวันฅ่ำ ฯ (อักษรไทย) “พศ ๒๔๖๔” The writing [of this manuscript] was completed at noon in 2464 BE, a […] rao year, on the twelfth waning-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, the fourth day of the week. Nan (ex-monk) Nanta died on the eleventh waning-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, according to the Nan calendar. [His body was] cremated on the twelfth waning-moon day. It rained all day. (Central Thai script) “2464 BE Suri […]” Remark: The date corresponds to Wednesday, 28 September 1921 (1283 Bhadrapada 27).

Other notes:

(Left side of the first folio) “Culavana, Phukam 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