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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00456

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793201

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:

Anonymous

Copying date in native date:

13, 10 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1265

Copying date in Gregorian:

1903 July 22

Begin Year Date:

1903

End Year Date:

1903

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript paper dimension:

5 cm x 54 cm

Text block dimension:

3.5 cm x 46.5 cm

Number of pages:

38 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Slightly damage

Description of manuscript content:

Himavanta or Himaphan , the section on the Himalaya is the second of the 13 sections of the Vessantara Jataka. It describes Prince Vessantara’s birth, his marriage to Princess Maddī, and their two beloved children named "Jali" and "Kanha". Then, Prince Vessantara was deported to the forest by the citizens of the Sivi to give away the invaluable white elephant of the city to Kalingka city. Maddī asked Prince Vessantara to accompany her to the forest. Then she narrated the region of the Himalaya as if she had already seen it.

Colophon:

[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at the time of the morning drum in CS 1265, a ka mao year, on the thirteenth waning-moon day of the tenth [lunar] month, a Wednesday. Nibbāna paccayo hotu me niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

เวสสันตรชาตกะ-หิมพานต์

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Vessantara Jātaka- Himavanta

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Vessantara Jataka- Himavanta (Himaphan forest)

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan