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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/24/28
Title:: Sai Kai [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a kind of ballad which reads the story of the creation of the Tai race on earth. In image 0001, it is written that long ago the the first of God to be the Tai race on ground, the second daughter to be the race of farmers, the third daughter to be the Tai race.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 64 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/25
Title:: Jibeshwar Phukan Collection [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This collection of manuscripts belongs to Jibeshwar Phukan.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1418 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/25/5
Title:: Buranji [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: The content of this manuscript is about the coming of Khun Lung and Khun Lai, the ancestors of Tai people, to Mung Ri Mung Rai. Fol 8v (image 0006) deals with Khun Lung and Khun Lai coming down to earth.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 32 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/25/6
Title:: Buranji [1754-55 or 1814-15]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contain historical information. In image 0004, it is recorded the death of the Ahom king Chau Lung Su Pat Pha in the year Lak Ni Khut Mit, Din Si (4th month), on the Rai Sau day. It is also written that he ruled for a period of 34 years. He was succeeded by Chau Su Khung Ba in the...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 1754-1815
Extent:: 39 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/25/7
Title:: Deo Buranji [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This content in this manuscript relates to different subjects. The content from image 0001-0004 is astrological forecasting for travel towards different directions on different days. In image 0004, it is written that on the Tau Sau day, travelling towards the north is not good while travelling to...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 25 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/25/8
Title:: Deo Buranji [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: The content of this manuscript is about the creation of the universe and the coming of Khun Lung Khun Lai to earth.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 28 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/25/9
Title:: Deo Buranji [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: In image 0003, it is written that in the past there was no king in the kingdom of Mung Kang and there was no one to pay tribute to Lengdon. So, Lengdon summoned a meeting with other Gods and Jesingpha to discuss with them about sending his grandsons to establish a Tai kingdom in Mung Kang. This m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 12 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/25/10
Title:: Du Kai Seng [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This is a fortune telling manuscript. There are images of pairs of chicken legs with thin bamboo sticks attached to them. And depending on these images, the placement of the bamboo sticks, fortune telling and procastination of any kind of good or bad happenings are done.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 17 tiff images

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