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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00416

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793161

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:

Phimphisan

Copying date in native date:

15, 11 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1266

Copying date in Gregorian:

1894

Begin Year Date:

1894

End Year Date:

1894

Place of copying:

Wat Ban Hong Luang, Lamphun

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript paper dimension:

4.5 cm x 50.5 cm

Text block dimension:

3 cm x 43.0 cm

Number of pages:

52 pages

Number of blank pages:

2 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

Okkāka, king of Kusavati, had two sons: Kusarāja and Jayavatti. Prince Kusarāja, who was very ugly, was married to Princess Pabhāvati. The two never met during the daytime. When Pabhāvati learned that her husband had a loathsome appearance, she fled and returned home. Prince Kusarāja followed her and begged her in vain to come back. Seeing that, Indra felt pity for the prince and came to his rescue. Pabhāvati consented to beg Kusarāja's pardon and King Maddarāja, Pabhāvati's father, arranged for a new wedding ceremony. After that, Prince Kusarāja took Pabhāvati back to Kusavati and reigned happily.

Colophon:

[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at 15:00 in CS 1266, a tao si year, on the fifteenth waxing-moon day of the eleventh [lunar] month, a full-moon day, a Friday as the Mon say. May the merit derived from writing this manuscript be a crystal junk carrying me across the great ocean and be a vigorous horse taking me to Nibbāna. Niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ. I, Phimphisan, wrote this manuscript. My handwriting is not beautiful because I am not good at handling a stylus. I wrote this manuscript during my stay of assistance to Sawathu Cao Sommana at Wat Ban Hong.

Other notes:

This date corresponds with 1894 CE.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

กุสสราช ผูก 2

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Kussarāja, Phūk II

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Kussarat, Second fascicle

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan