This manuscript describes the story of Pajāpatī who offers somethe Kathina robesRobe to the Buddha and his disciples. The Buddha narrated teaches a Jātaka titled “Majjhajātaka,” in which he was born as a fish, to his monks in order to point out rewards derived from the donation of monk robes to a Buddha and his disciples describing the time when a Bhodisatta was born as a fish. The Buddha teaches this story to highlight the fruition about the Kathina robe offering ceremony.
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed by myself at the time of the evening drum in BE 2490, a moeng khai year, on the tenth waxing-moon day of the first [lunar] month, the seventh day of the week as the Mon say. Acan (teacher) Nan (ex-monk) Chu Phira Kaeo wrote the manuscript at Ban Mò near the main road, King Ban Hong district.
Other notes:
The date corresponds to Friday, 24 October 1947 (1309 Asvina 10).