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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00635

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793380

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.12-12-021-00.

Subject matter:

Buddhist Chronicle

Copyist:

Anonymous

Copying date in native date:

15, 01 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1260

Copying date in Gregorian:

1898 September 30

Script:

Dhamma Lan Na

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

Yes

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

4.5 cm x 30.5 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

4.5 cm x 30.5 cm

Text block dimension:

3.5 cm x 25.0 cm

Number of pages:

66 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

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:

[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at the time of the morning drum in CS 1260, a poek set year, on the fifteenth waxing-moon day of the first [lunar] month, the sixth day of the week. Nibbāna paccayo hotu no niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ.

Other notes:

This date corresponds to Friday, 30 September 1898 (1260 Asvina 15).

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

เมตเตยยวงส์ ผูก 5

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Metteyyavaṃsa, Phūk V

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Metteyyavangsa, Fifth fascicle

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan