Details

Subjects:

Buddhist literature, Pali -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist literature, Pali.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Sermons.
Commentaries.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Pali -- 18th century.
Manuscripts, Thai -- 18th century.

Language:

In Pali (Lanna).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Vohara text describing the deeds of great people; includes a relic history.

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on October 21, 2015)
Written in 4 lines per leaf.
Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 17 cm apart; tied through the left hole; some leaves partial, some edges damaged.
Written in Thailand, possibly in the 18th century (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.7 x 52.5 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 51-9-9.

Contributor:

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