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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00475

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793220

Country:

Thailand

City (Province):

Lamphun

Name of collection:

Wat Ban Hong Luang

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Anonymous

Catalog reference:

ลพ.12-07-091-00.

Subject matter:

Jataka

Copyist:

Anonymous

Copying date in native date:

6, 12 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1225

Copying date in Gregorian:

1863 October 03

Begin Year Date:

1863

End Year Date:

1863

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript paper dimension:

5 cm x 54.5 cm

Text block dimension:

3.5 cm x 45.0 cm

Number of pages:

60 pages

Number of blank pages:

2 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

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 in CS 1225, a ka khai year, on the sixth waning-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, the seventh day of the week.May I attain the threefold happiness of which Nibbāna is the ultimate one.

Other notes:

The date corresponds to Saturday, 3 October 1863 (1225 Bhadrapada 21).

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

เวสสันตรชาตกะ – จุลวนะ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Vessantara Jātaka-Culavana

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Vessantara Jātaka-Chulavana (The small forest)

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan