Maddī or Princess Maddi, the Vessantara’s consort, is the ninth section and 12th fascicle in the Vessantara Jataka. When Princess Maddi goes away for fruits. As she is returning, she finds her way barred by three fierce animals including a lion, a tiger and a leopard. Having known that Jūjaka was away with her two children. By the time, three beasts sent by Indra let her pass. When Maddi arrives back at the hermitage having found no children anywhere. She inquiries from her husband what has happened to them. But he keeps silent. She is very upset, burst into tears and falls down.
Colophon:
My handwriting is not professional, looks like hen-scratching, and has inconsistent sizes.
Nibbāna paccayo hotu no niccaṃ dhuvaṃ.
May this merit support me, my family members, and my teachers. In CS 1225, a ka khai year, on the tenth waning-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, the fourth day of the week, at the time of the evening drum, I wrote the manuscript during my stay of assistance to Sawathu Cao Luang Chai at Wat Ban Hong Kaeo Kwang, near the main road.
Monk Gandhā wrote the manuscript to sustain the continuation of Buddhism long as the life of this manuscript.
Nibbāna paccayo hotu me metteyya santike anāgate dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ.
Other notes:
The date corresponds to Wednesday, 7 October 1863 (1225 Bhadrapada 25).