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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00488

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793233

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 Sommana

Copying date in native date:

11, 12 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1240

Copying date in Gregorian:

1878 September 07

Begin Year Date:

1878

End Year Date:

1878

Place of copying:

Wat Ban Hong Luang, Lamphun

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

Yes

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

5 cm x 55.5 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

5 cm x 55.5 cm

Text block dimension:

3.5 cm x 47.5 cm

Number of pages:

15 pages

Number of blank pages:

1 page

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

The Bodhisattva was reborn in Benares under the Name of Jampuraja (Taeng Kheaw). Once grown up, he went trading abroad. Having reached an is-land, he grew melons all by himself. As seven kinnaris had come to ransack his plantation, Jampuraja (Taeng Kheaw) captured one of them, Manorah, and kept her as hostage. King Udumbara sent to Jampuraja (Taeng Kheaw) a large quantity of gold and silver to ransom his daughter. Having become rich, the hero left the island and went to Benares where; after having built a golden bridge between his house and the palace, he married the king's daughter and finally succeeded his father-in-law on the throne.

Colophon:

[The writing of this manuscript] was completed on the seventh day of the week, at midnight. Nibbāna paccayo hontu me metteyya santike anāgate kāle niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ Monk Sommana wrote the manuscript with his own hand when he was the abbot of Wat Si Bun Rüang Kaeo Kwang, near the main road. CS 1240,a moeng pao year, the eleventh waxing-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, the seventh day of the week, midnight.

Other notes:

The date corresponds to Saturday, 7 September 1878 (1240 Bhadrapada 11).

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ชมพูราชชาดก ผูก 1

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Campurāja Jātaka, Phūk I

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Chompuracha Jataka, First fascicle

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan