Details

Subjects:

Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Jātaka. Vessantarajātaka.
Jataka stories, Thai -- Early works to 1800.
Jataka stories, Thai.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Sermons.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Thai -- 17th century.

Language:

In Pali with some Thai (Lanna).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Vohara text on the episode of the Vessantara Jataka story in which Vessantara gives away his children.

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 30, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Foliated with letters, sa through sai, verso left margin; 4 leaves from the J's in the middle, out of order, but from the same text.
Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes slightly more than 20 cm apart; many edges frayed or damaged; last leaf partial; red lacquer edges; string through left hole tied in a loop.
Written in Thailand, possibly in the late 17th century.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.5 x 53.5 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2015.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Mrs. W. H. Kneedler (Christina Butler Harris Kneedler, former Presbyterian medical missionary in Thailand with her husband, William Harding Kneedler), 1951.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 51-9-7.

Contributor:

Kneedler, Christina Butler Harris, 1904-1985, donor.