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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0126 00725

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/793470

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:

6, 11 (lunar) Cuḷasakarāja 1253

Copying date in Gregorian:

1891 August 26

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:

4.5 cm x 36 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

4.5 cm x 36 cm

Text block dimension:

3.5 cm x 30.5 cm

Number of pages:

35 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

Once upon a time the Bodhisatta was born as a poor young man named “Nandasenakumāra.” One day a royal priest predicted that Nandasenakumāra become a king of Vārāṇasī in the future. The king of the city knew and wanted to kill him. The king therefore commanded him to find three women living in the Himavanta forest. He encountered obstacles in the journey but could finally find the three women. He brought them back to the city. The king was later swallowed underneath the earth because he was vicious to the Bodhisatta. Nandasenakumāra married the three women and ruled the city.

Colophon:

Nibbānaṃ paramaṃ sukkhaṃ niccaṃ [The writing of this manuscript] was completed in CS 1253, a ruang mao year, on the sixth waning-moon day of the eleventh [lunar] month, the fourth day of the week, in the early afternoon (12:00–13:30). Monk Sommana wrote the manuscript with his own hand at Wat Si Bun Rüang Ban Hong, near the main road, in Hariphunchai. May the merit be transferred to my family members and all lay supporters.

Other notes:

This date corresponds to Wednesday, 26 August 1891 (1253 Sravana 21).

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

นันทเสน ผูก 1

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Nandasena, Phūk I

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Nantasen, First fascicle

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Tai Yuan