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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00414

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793159

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:

Monk Abhijaya

Copying date in native date:

6, 12 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1232

Copying date in Gregorian:

1870

Begin Year Date:

1870

End Year Date:

1870

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript paper dimension:

5.2 cm x 45 cm

Text block dimension:

4 cm x 38.0 cm

Number of pages:

44 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Slightly damage

Description of manuscript content:

A wealthy man and his wife living in Benares had two sons: Sirimekkha and Sirinanda. When the wife died, the man remarried with a woman who despised the two children and convinced her husband to abandon them in the forest. The two boys studied the magic sciences with a hermit. Sometime later, Sirinanda married khyv Gam, a yakṣa's daughter. One day, he freed ayn2 Gam, daughter of the king of Benares, who had been abducted by a vidyadhara, and brought her back home. Realizing that Surinanda had accumulated many merits, the king of Benares had him ascend the throne.

Colophon:

Monk Abhijaya wrote this manuscript with his own hand. My handwriting is not beautiful. [The writing of this manuscript was completed] in CS 1232, a tao san year, in the cold season, on the sixth waning-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, a Sunday.

Other notes:

This date corresponds with 1870 CE.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

นันทกุมาร ผูก 2

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Nandakumāra, Phūk II

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Nanthakumara, Second fascicle

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan