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:
[The writing of this manuscript was completed] in CS 1280, a poek sanga year, on the sixth waxing-moon day of the ninth [lunar] month, the second day of the week as the Mon say, in the evening. Novice Kòngchai wrote the manuscript.
Nibbānaṃ paramaṃ sukhaṃ dhuvaṃ.
Other notes:
The date corresponds to Thursday, 16 May 1918 (1280 Jyestha 6).