This manuscript is Thūpavaṃsa explainings the history of building Buddha images that are regarded as a representative of the Buddha. To serve different benefits, construction of pagodas are constructed into different shapes and enshrine Buddha relics enshrine, accompanied with other offering-alms the Buddha representations, with different material use and shapes. such as a Buddha image and Cediya where the relics are enshrined.
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed after lunch while novices were offering meals to monks in CS 1253, a ruang mao year, on the sixth waxing-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, the fourth day of the week. At Wat Ban Hong I, Novice Mano, wrote this manuscript with my weak writing skills. May the merit derived from writing this manuscript protect my family members.
Sudinnaṃ vata me dānaṃ nibbānaṃ paramaṃ sukkhaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ
I could not concentrate on writing well because I wanted to play at the rice field.