Pu (grandfather) Nan (ex-monk) Chaiyawong; his wife; children.
Catalog reference:
ลพ.12-07-115-00
Subject matter:
Jataka
Copyist:
Monk Inda
Copying date in native date:
9, Cuḷasakarāja 1252
Copying date in Gregorian:
1890
Script:
Dhamma Lan Na
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript paper dimension:
4.5 cm x 47.5 cm
Text block dimension:
3 cm x 39.0 cm
Number of pages:
46 pages
Number of blank pages:
2 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Damaged
Description of manuscript content:
This manuscript explains the rewards derived from repairing fingers of Buddha images with an exemplary story of a poor man: he saw a finger of a Buddha statue break and repaired its fruition to renovate the figures of a Buddha image. It references a story of a poor young man who renovates broken figures of a Buddha image. After doing so, his life was improved gets a living prosperity.
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed on Tuesday, at the forenoon time, on a ninth waning-moon day in CS 1252. I wrote the manuscript at Wat Cedi during my stay of assistance to Thu Luang Sommano.Thu Inda wrote the manuscript. May this merit be transferred to my family members. May I have sharp wisdom. The principal initiator was Pu (grandfather) Nan (ex-monk) Chaiyawong, together with his wife and children, who sponsored the writing of this manuscript so that Buddhism could be prolonged [5,000 years] or as long as the life of this manuscript.