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 on the seventh day of the week, a kot cai day as the Tai say, on the second waning-moon day of the tenth [lunar] month, at the time of the noon horn. Monk Canda wrote the manuscript. My handwriting is not stable. In CS 1265, a ka mao year, I wrote the manuscript during my stay of assistance to Sawathu Khruba Cao Sommana. May I possess sharp wisdom to understand all the 84,000 collections of the Dhamma.
Other notes:
The date corresponds to Saturday, 11 July 1903 (1265 Ashadha 17).