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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0113 00872
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/792687
Country:
Thailand
City (Province):
Nan
Name of collection:
Wat Monthian
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Monk Phintha
Subject matter:
Jataka
Copyist:
Anonymous
Copying date in native date:
13, 02 (lunar)
Copying date in Gregorian:
1867
Place of copying:
Anonymous
Script:
Dhamma Lan Na
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript paper dimension:
6 x 60 cm
Text block dimension:
4.5 x 49 cm
Number of pages:
30 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Good
Description of manuscript content:
Maddī or Princess Maddi, the Vessantara’s consort, is the ninth section and 12th fascicle in the Vessantara Jataka. When Princess Maddi goes away for fruits. As she is returning she finds her way barred by three fierce animals including a lion, a tiger and a leopard. Having known that Jūjaka was away with her two children. By the time, three beasts sent by Indra let her pass. When Maddi arrives back at the hermitage having found no children anywhere. She inquiries from her husband what has happened to them. But he keeps silent. She is very upset, burst into tears and falls down.
Colophon:
ปริปุณณะแล้วยามช้ายแก่ข้าน้อยแล เดือนยี่ ออก 13 ฅ่ำ พร่ำว่าได้วัน 7 แก่ข้าน้อยแล ข้าเขียนค้ำชูสวาธุเจ้าพินทาแลนายเหิย ฯ อรหนฺตามคฺคญาณํ ทินฺนํ นิพฺพาน ปจฺจโย โหนฺตุ โน นิจํ ธุวํ ดีหลีเทิอะ ฯ มทรี จบับกำแพงชั้นใน ฯ The [writing of this manuscript] was completed in the late morning, on the thirteenth waxing-moon day of the second [lunar] month, the seventh day of the week, by me [who inscribed the manuscript for] Monk Phintha. Arahantā maggañāṇaṃ dinnaṃ nibbāna paccayo hontu no niccaṃ dhuvaṃ. Maddī, Kamphaeng Chan Nai Version.

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
มัทิทฯ
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Maddī
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Maddī (Princess named Maddi)
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Pali; Lan Na
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