Once upon a time, the Buddha went to a mountain named “Don Tao.” He gave the Dhamma to Indra god and other gods and goddesses and offered his hair to be enshrined. The Buddha predicted that O Ānada! when Tathāgata passed away, King Asoka would bring Tathāgata’s relics together with the hair to this place. There will be a woman named “Sujātā” donate the Vihāra “main hall,” Cetiya, and Buddha images made from emerald. People will call this place “Wat Phra Kaew.” One day, Sujāta was slandered as having sexual intercourse with a senior monk and that she was ordered to death penalty. Her death caused the famine to the city and made people migrate to other places and that the Wat Phra Karw was abandoned until the BE of 1280. The temple was renovated and became prosperous again. Those, who copy this manuscript by themselves or employ other to do so for them and dedicate the merit to the dead ones, will be reborn in the realm of heaven after death. Chronicle of Phra Kaeo Don Tao.
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at the time of the forenoon horn in BE 2472, a kat sai year, on a waning-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, a Thursday, by Monk Dhanañjaya. The principal initiator was Nòi (ex-novice) Tui, together with his family members, who sponsored the writing of this manuscript Tamnan Dòn Tao to dedicate the merit to his deceased wife named Ms. Ma. May she receive the merit successfully and be free from all kinds of suffering.
Other notes:
This date corresponds to Thursday, 19 September 1929 (1291 Bhadrapada 16).