This manuscript describes the legend of Phra That Ta Khong. The content of this manuscript begins with a brief biography of the Buddha including the birth, renunciation, ordination, and awakening. After his awakening 49 days, the Buddha received the alms from the Tapussa and Baliga. The Buddha gave his hair to them and assigned them that they should bring these hairs to a mountain named Siṅguttara. Tapussa and Baliga tried to find the place but did not know where to go. They asked people they met during the journey, but no one knew the place. The king of Jetanagara City asked for the two hairs of the Buddha, but Nāga stole the hairs from him. However, finally the hairs came back to Tapussa and Baliga. One day, a god Visukamma descended himself from the heaven to guide the two men the way to a mountain Siṅguttara. Tapussa and Baliga, finally, enshrined hair relics of the Buddha in the Siṅguttara and this place was called Phra That Siṅguttara or Phra That Ta Khong. The king of the city a
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at midnight. My handwriting was not that beautiful because I rushed the writing. CS 1265, a ka mao year, reaching the season of the fourth lunar month, on the fifth waxing-moon day. This manuscript was inscribed by six scribes and combined as one unit on the same day.
Other notes:
This manuscript was inscribed by six scribes. They were assigned to finish the writing within one day.
Note: This date corresponds to 1265 Pausha 5 = Wednesday, 23 December 1903.
Item 1 - Title in Native script:
ตำนานะธาตุธะโค่ง
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Tamnān Dhātu Takoṃ
Item 1 - Title in English script:
The legend of Singkhuttra (Legend of Takhong, the story of Phrathat Thakhong)