A poem by Muṃ tuiṅʻ paṅʻ Charā toʻ Vaṃsābhilaṅkāradhajarājaguru (composed in 1829 when the author was 51 year old and had 27 years of monastic standing) consisting of concise, easily memorizable lists of categories relevant for lay morality and social conduct. The latter part of the poem provide...
An early sixteenth-century didactic poem being an adaptation of the Hatthipāla jataka (jātaka no. 509). Also known as the Hatthipāla pyuiʹ. Considered one of the classics of Burmese poetry. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries it has been one of the texts studied by lay students and ...
A commentary on a didactic poem usually ascribed to monk Sīlavaṃsa residing in the Arakanese town of Thandwe. The relationship between two manuscript testimonies digitized within the framework of this project (the other being WL-HL-KMT 017.2 or BAB_KMS00163_2) and the commonly known version (ms ...
A collection of Buddhist riddles in a question and answer form, identified as the Kyamʻʺ poṅʻʺ mhatʻ cu in the marginal title. Extent and format of original material: Part of the fascicle comprised of 11 (10 + 1/4) inscribed folios. Physical characteristics: Incomplete, folio ṭa missing.
Bilingual translation of the Mahāparitta, a collection of eleven suttas used as a protective and liturgical text. The authorship of this nissaya has not yet been thoroughly investigated. The nissaya is almost identical to the one found in the manuscript WL-HL-NKB 129 with minor variations. The i...
Bilingual translation of the Mahāparitta, a collection of eleven suttas used as a protective and liturgical text. The authorship of this text has not been thoroughly investigated yet. The nissaya is almost identical to the one found in the manuscript WL-HL-NKB 128 with minor variations. The intr...
Anonymous vernacular work dealing with Pali grammar in the form of questions and answers. Extent and format of original material: 1 fascicle of 18 inscribed folios. Physical characteristics: Incomplete, 4 folios in the beginning of the fascicle have their left sides missing.
Orthographic work for memorizing the spelling of finals and medials in Burmese syllables. Kabyāsāratthasaṅgaha by Ññoṅʻ kanʻ Charā toʻ Cakkindābhisirisaddhammadhaja mahādhammarājādhirājaguru (Jambudhaja) was one of the more widely used works of this genre in the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...
A short curricular work on verbal suffixes based on the grammatical tradition of Kaccāyana. Composed by Toṅʻ tvaṅʻʺ Charā toʻ Ñāṇālaṅkāra mahādhammarājaguru (Khaṅʻ krīʺ Phyoʻ). Extent and format of original material: Part of the fascicle of 8 (6 + ¾ + ¼) inscribed folios. Author(s) of original...
Definitions of ten types of figurative or secondary meaning. A curricular work or an extract from a larger work. Different from the corresponding section in the Saddā krīʺ pudʻ cacʻ cuṃ ascribed to Toṅʻ tvaṅʻʺ Charā toʻ Ñāṇālaṅkāra mahādhammarājaguru (Khaṅʻ krīʺ Phyoʻ). Extent and format of ori...