When the Buddha was staying at Isipatana Marugadayavana in Varanasi, he talked about a poor man who was faithful and saw other people making merit (offerings) but he did not have anything to do so. One day he dug in the soil and made a stupa. He decorated the stupa with ornaments in order to worship the Triple Gem. Then he and his wife also offered food to monks. After their death, the merit generated from making the stupa supported them to be born as deities in the heaven with a castle and a lifespan for 84,000 years.
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Folio 8 on the verso side: In BE 2511, a poek san year, on the twelfth day of the waxing moon of the first [lunar] month, a Monday, corresponding to 2nd December 1968, at 15:00, the writing of this manuscript was finished. Pha Phui Thiracitta Thera, the abbot of Vat Pha Maha That Rajabovoravihan and the Chao Khana Tasaeng Tai (the southern ecclesiastical head of the sub-district), Luang Prabang, was the sponsor and the scribe of the making of this manuscript. Nibbāna paccaya hotu no (May this be a condition for us to reach Nirvana).