The content of the manuscript includes: 1) Numbers of days spent on travelling from the Bodhi tree, where the Buddha attained the Enlightenment, to other 16 cities. At each of these cities a pagoda enshrining the Buddha relics, hair, and footprints was constructed. 2) Detailed explanation on physical appearance of the Bodhi tree, where the Buddha awakened. 3) Explanation on drawings and patterns appearing in the Buddha footprint. 4) King Phissanu asked Nang Thòrani about differences among people living happily/prosperously and unhappily under suffering and disasters. She explained that people built their houses on improper locations, faced their houses in wrong directions, and let misfortune trees grow in their areas. The manuscript also describes other inauspicious habits: filling swamps with soil, converting river flows, making a hole in a wall to make a door, cutting landmark trees, and terminating long-inherited traditional norms.
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at the time of the morning drum (7:30–9:00). It was quite late. In CS 1297, a dap khai year, on the sixth waxing-moon day of the eleventh lunar month, the second day of the week, I, Monk Buntham, copied this manuscript during my stay as assistance to Thu Luang (abbot) Suriya.
Nibbāna paccayo hontu no niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ. Iminā dhammadharaṇī (li)khittadānaṃ nibbānaṃ paramaṃ sukkhaṃ
I am ringing the bell, indicating lunch time.
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed on the second day [of the week], the seventeenth auspicious time. I, Phra Kamai, inscribed the manuscript by myself to sustain Buddhism to last for 5,000 years or so long as this manuscript exists. This copy is in accordance with the original version. May this merit be transferred to gods and goddesses, God Indra, God Brāhma, Lord of Death, God Isavara, and God of scripture.
Other notes:
Folio 43 contains decorative drawings for texts.
The date corresponds to 1297 Sravana 6 = Monday, 5 August 1935.
Item 1 - Title in Native script:
ตำนานนางธรณี
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Tamnān Nāṃ Dhoraṇī
Item 1 - Title in English script:
The legend of Nang (Ms) Thòrani “Goddess of Earth”