Once upon a time, the Metteyya Bodhisatta was reborn as Ajita-kumāra in the time of Gotama Buddha. He was ordained as a novice and became a monk in the Buddha’s school. One day Pajāpatī offered a robe to the Buddha specifically, but he rejected and told Pajāpatī to offer the robe to a monk within the monastic community randomly. Ajita received the robe and the Buddha predicted that he would become a buddha named “Metteyya” in the future.
Colophon:
Nibbānaṃ paramaṃ sukhaṃ.
In CS 1260, a poek set year, on the second waxing-moon day of the second [lunar] month, the first day of the week, at the time of the morning drum, Monk Sommana wrote this manuscript with his own hand during his abbotship at Wat Si Bun Rüang Ban Hong in Hariphunchai. I wish to attain the threefold happiness of which Nibbāna is the ultimate one. May the merit derived writing the religious manuscript be transferred to my family members, my teachers, and all lay supporters. May they all be reborn in the realms of heaven and attain Nibbāna.
Other notes:
This date corresponds to Sunday, 16 October 1898 (1260 Karttika 2).