Prince Suvannamegha, son of King Sudassa, was expelled from the kingdom of Benares following intrigues perpetrated against him by a minor queen. He wandered in the jungle, accompanied by a golden-hair dog, and found refuge in a hermitage where he studied the arts and sciences before marrying Gandhamalā, the hermit's daughter. Later on, the minor queen's daughter was offered as food to a yakşa. The young prince. freed her and was placed on the throne of Benares by his father, King Sudassa.
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed in the forenoon on the first waning-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, the seventh day of the week, CS 1249, a moeng khai year. I, Monk Indavijaya, wrote the manuscript during my stay of assistance to Sawathu Khruba Sommana.
Other notes:
The date corresponds to Saturday, 3 September 1887 (1249 Bhadrapada 16).