Pu (grandfather) Nan (ex-monk) Uppanan; his children
Catalog reference:
ลพ.12-07-081-00.
Subject matter:
Jataka
Copyist:
Monk Sommaṇa; Thephin
Copying date in native date:
11, 11 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1230
Copying date in Gregorian:
1868 August 14
Place of copying:
Wat Ban Hong Luang, Lamphun
Script:
Dhamma Lan Na
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript paper dimension:
4.4 cm x 48.0 cm
Text block dimension:
0.2 cm x 44.0 cm
Number of pages:
42 pages
Number of blank pages:
1 page
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Damaged
Description of manuscript content:
A king of Mueang Mithilāa city has a bullfrog son named Gandhaghāṭakadakumāara. When he grew up, his skin peeled off sloughs and he became a young gold-skinned man who became a handsome golden man. He married a beautiful woman from The Utarakuru continent and t. They had 2 sons. One day, Lord Thaen in the celestial realm took his followers to fight over Gandhaghāṭakakumāra’s wife. He controlled the rain arbitrarily, withering rice farms and bloomingPhraya Than wants to get the beautiful woman. This results the famine.
Colophon:
My handwriting is not beautiful. Monks and novices who use this manuscript are suggested reading it carefully. [The writing of this manuscript] was completed in early in the morning, in CS 1230, a poek si year. Monk Sommaṇa wrote the first half and Thephin wrote the second half. Our handwritings are not beautiful. The manuscript was competed on the eleventh waning-moon day of the eleventh [lunar] month, the seventh day of the week. The principal initiator was Pu (grandfather) Nan (ex-monk) Uppanan, together with his children
Other notes:
This date corresponds with Friday, 14 August 1868 (1230 Sravana 26).