This manuscript is a Jātaka or a story of one of the Buddha’s past lives given to his disciples. (Fascicle 3) Wearing in the cicada costume, Suvaṇṇasaṅkha flew to the city of Bārāṇasī in which the king had seven daughters. There was a husband selection ceremony for the seven daughters. The youngest daughter named “Rajaṇā” selected no males in ceremony. The king thus summoned all men in the city to gather to be selected by the daughter. She saw Suvaṇṇasaṅkha who was in the cicada costume and threw a garland choosing him. The king was angry and drove them away from the city. He devised a tricky plan to fool Suvaṇṇasaṅkha: he assigned all his seven sons-in-law to hunt deer and fish. Suvaṇṇasaṅkha used his magic word calling deer and fish to be presented to the king; but the other six sons-in-law got only one deer and one fish each.
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at midnight in CS 1248, a rawai set year, on the first waxing-moon day of the first [lunar] month, the fourth day of the week, by Monk Teja during his stay of assistance to Khruba Sommaṇa at Wat Ban Hong.
Nibbānaṃ paramaṃ sukkhaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ.
Other notes:
This date corresponds with Wednesday, 29 September 1886 (1248 Asvina 1).