Extracts from the Tipiṭaka and 'Phra Malai' พระมาลัย
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Fols. 1-9: Extracts from the Tipiṭaka Fols. 10-88: Legend of a famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell. Colophon on fol. 88 in Thai script giving date B.E. 2418: 'หนังสือพระมาไลเลมนี ข้าพเจ้ามีสัทาชรางไว้ในพระพุทสาษน้า สำเรดแล้วในปีมะโรงสำเรชีศก พระพุทศักราชลวงแล...
Majjhima nikāya, part 3: Uparipaṇṇāsa, comprising suttas. A royal copy, presented by King Mindon, who was a patron of the Mahalokamarājin Ceit, after he founded Mandalay.
'Akharavattasut', i.e. Akaravattarasutta, an apocryphal Suttanta. Includes a letter that says: 'For the British Museum London - From Admiral Page, of Ipswich, Suffolk. This writing of the Burmese language, found in one of their Temples near Prome; was obtained by Mr. Drake, secretary to Commod...
A: 'Silathewiwisutthiwaracha' B: 'Thammasammasamphuttha phuk thuan sip' C: Side one: 'Anisongga taknammasunsuk', also contains some writing in Shan. Side two: 'Anisong khainammannaiwan'.
Cambodian version of the Ramayana, or Reamker. Cover title: nèḥ sātrā rāmmaker tāṃṅ te rābbh luoc sètā mak tal hanummān thvāyº khluon jā khñuṃm capp tè punneḥ eṅ hoṅ. An excerpt of the earliest portion of the Khmer Rāmāyaṇa, Rāmakerti I (sixteenth–seventeenth centuries CE), beginning from stanz...