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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0011 00884
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/537512
Country:
Laos
City (Province):
Luang Prabang
Name of collection:
Vat Maha That Rasabovoravihan
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Phaya Luang Tianthaen together with his wife
Subject matter:
Suttanta doctrine
Copying date in native date:
ຂຶ້ນ 11 ຄໍ່າ ເດືອນ 10 ຈຸນລະສັງກາດຣາຊະໄດ້ 1212 ຕົວ ປີກົດເສັດ
Copying date in Gregorian:
1850 September 17
Place of copying:
Luang Prabang
Script:
Tham Lao
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
4.6 x 56 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
4.6 x 56 cm
Text block dimension:
3.7 x 49.2 cm
Number of pages:
42 pages
Number of blank pages:
2 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Poor
Description of manuscript content:
The Buddha’s Journey to Vesāli. The city of Vesāli was hit by famine due to drought and bad harvests. The poor died first and their bodies were casted away. Due to the stench of their corpses, evil spirits entered the city and thus many more people died. The Buddha was invited and pondered about the situation, then he came to the following understanding: “If the Ratana Sutta will be recited in Vesāli, the protection it affords will pervade hundreds of millions of solar systems. At the conclusion of the Sutta, eighty-four thousand living beings will comprehend the supra-mundane Dhamma and the calamities will subside.” Thus, he consented to the request of the invitation to Vesāli.
Colophon:
Folio 20 on the recto side: In Culasakkarat (CS) 1212, a kot set year, on the eleventh day of the waxing moon of the tenth [lunar] month, the third day of the week (Tuesday), a huang mot day, in the morning between 7:30–9:00, the writing of this manuscript was finished. Phaya Luang Tianthaen and his wife together with their children, friends, relatives, male-female slaves had jointly the ardent religious faith to sponsor the making of these manuscript entitled Lam Sammutthakhatha, Lam Lattanasut and Lam Pae Sanabenson to support the Teachings of Gotama Buddha to last until the end of 5 thousand years. May all our wishes and desires be fulfilled. Nibbāna paccayo hotu no dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ. (May this be a condition for us to reach Nirvana, certainly).

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
ສໍາມຸດທະຄາຖາ
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Sammudda Gāthā
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Sammudda Gāthā
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Pali, Lao
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