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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00311

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793056

Country:

Thailand

City (Province):

Lamphun

Name of collection:

Wat Ban Hong Luang

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Anonymous

Subject matter:

Jataka

Copyist:

Anonymous

Copying date in native date:

13, 11 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1245

Copying date in Gregorian:

1883 August 31

Begin Year Date:

1883

End Year Date:

1883

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript paper dimension:

5.5 cm x 51 cm

Text block dimension:

4 cm x 45.0 cm

Number of pages:

12 pages

Number of blank pages:

1 page

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

Culavana or Cullapon, meaning ‘a small forest’ is the sixth episode of the 13 episodes of the Vessantara Jataka and tells of a Brahmin called Jūjaka who was walking to Mount Vamka to ask Prince Vessantara for the two kumara (young prince and princess), Jali and Kanha. On his way, Jūjaka meets the hunter, Jetaputta. When he was chased by the hunter’s dogs, he climbed up a tree where he tricked the hunter by telling him that he was a royal emissary sent to invite Prince Vessantara. The hunter trusted him and showed him the way to Vamkata.

Colophon:

Culavana, Saeng Yòt version. CS 1245, a ka met year, the thirteenth waning-moon day of the eleventh [lunar] month, a Tuesday.

Other notes:

This date corresponds with Friday, 31 August 1883 (1245 Sravana 28)

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

เวสสันตรชาตกะ – จุลวนะ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Vessantara Jātaka-Culavana

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Vessantara Jātaka-Chulavana (The small forest)

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan