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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0011 00696

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/537324

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Luang Prabang

Name of collection:

Vat Maha That Rasabovoravihan

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Saen Mai Ngao and his wife, Sao Suk, together with their children

Subject matter:

Suttanta doctrine

Copying date in native date:

ຂຶ້ນ 12 ຄໍ່າ ວັນອາທິດ ເດືອນ 4 ຈຸນລະສັງກາດຣາຊາໄດ້ 2 ພັນ 4 ຮ້ອຍ 78 ຕົວ ປີເມິ່ງເປົ້າ

Copying date in Gregorian:

1935 February 25

Place of copying:

Luang Prabang

Script:

Tham Lao

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

4.7 x 58.6 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

4.7 x 58.6 cm

Text block dimension:

3.8 x 53.9 cm

Number of pages:

58 pages

Number of blank pages:

3 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Poor

Description of manuscript content:

While residing at Mount Gijjhakuta near Rajgir, the Buddha delivered a sermon of this Akaravatta Sutta to Sariputta Thera. The Sutta contains five verses starting from Navaradiguna Verse to Paramidatta Verse. The Akaravatta Sutta is more powerful than other suttas in preventing those who follow the Teachings against harm. Those who always recall the sutta would be safe from various dangers and have cleaned minds. The person listens, writes, recites, fallows and chants the text would be refrained from 30 kinds of dangers: ferocious animals, kings, water and fire, bad humans and devils, etc.

Colophon:

Folio 28 on the recto side: In Culasakkarat 2 thousand 4 hundred and 78 (corresponding to BE 2478), a moeng pao year, on the twelfth day of the waxing moon of the fourth [lunar] month, a Sunday, Saen Mai Ngao together with his wife, Sao Suk, and their children had the ardent religious faith to sponsor the making of this manuscript entitled Akaravattasut to support the Teachings of Gotama Buddha to last until the end of five thousand years. May all my wishes and desires be fulfilled. May I enter the crystal city which is Nirvana. Niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ (constantly and certainly).

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ອາກາລະວັດຕະສູດ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Ākāravatta Sutta

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Discourse on the conditions of the Buddha

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali, Lao