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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00315

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793060

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:

8, 10 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1245

Copying date in Gregorian:

1883 July 27

Begin Year Date:

1883

End Year Date:

1883

Place of copying:

Wat Cedi Yang Som, Lamphun

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 44.0 cm

Number of pages:

24 pages

Number of blank pages:

1 page

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

Sakkapabba or Sakkaban (the section on Sakka or Indra) is the tenth section of the 13 sections of Veassantara Jataka. The content mentions about Sakka or Indra transformed as a Brahmin and bagged Princess Maddi from Vessantara. Vessantara gave Maddi to the Brahmin. Then the Bramin gave Maddi back and also eight blessings to Vessantara such as may the people of the Sivi city forgive him and invite him to back home.

Colophon:

[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at the time of the noon horn in CS 1245, a ka met year, on the eighth waning-moon day of the tenth [lunar] month, the sixth day of the week. I wrote this manuscript during my stay of assistance to Sawathu Cao Luang Sommano at Wat Cedi Yang Som.

Other notes:

This date corresponds with Friday, 27 July 1883 (1245 Ashadha 23).

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

เวสสันตรชาตกะ- สักบัรพ์

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Vessantara Jātaka- Sakkapabba

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Vessantara Jataka- Sakkaban (the section on Sakka or Indra)

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan