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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0011 00513

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/537141

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Luang Prabang

Name of collection:

Vat Maha That Rasabovoravihan

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Phu Nyai Samat, his wife, children, grandchildren and other relatives

Subject matter:

Suttanta doctrine

Copying date in native date:

ຂຶ້ນ 15 ຄໍ່າ ວັນ 3 ເດືອນ 12 ສັງກາດໄດ້ 1221 ຕົວ ປີກັດມົດ

Copying date in Gregorian:

1859 November 09

Place of copying:

Luang Prabang

Script:

Tham Lao

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

4.5 x 54.7 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

4.5 x 54.7 cm

Text block dimension:

3.5 x 47 cm

Number of pages:

54 pages

Number of blank pages:

4 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Poor

Description of manuscript content:

The text describes how Phaya Candasena forced a hunter to catch a bird named Siva. The king believed that if he sacrificed the bird to the Ganga River he would be spared from diseases. The hunter successfully caught the bird and, on the way to the king’s palace, the bird asked the hunter for his freedom in exchange of revealing a treasure spot but the hunter did not believe his words.

Colophon:

Folio 26 on the recto side: In Culasakkarat (CS) 1221, a kat mot year, on the full-moon day of the twelfth [lunar] month, the third day of the week (Tuesday), at the time of the sunset drum (13:30–15:00), the writing of this manuscript was finished. Samat together with his wife, his children and sibling had the religious faith to sponsor the making of this manuscript entitled Sakunapakòn, to support the Teachings of the Buddha to last until the end of 5000 years. Nibbāna paccayo hotu no (May this be a condition for us to reach Nirvana).

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ສັກກຸນາ ປາກອນ (ຜູກຕົ້ນ)

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Sakkunā Pākòn (Phuk Ton)

Item 1 - Title in English script:

The manuscript of the bird (fascicle 1)

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali, Lao