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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/5/4
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:: 40 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/5/5
Title:: Khon Ming [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: The content of this manuscript is similar to the other KhonMing manuscripts. It contains mantras to call khons or spirits. The mantras in this manuscript is for calling the spirits of the ancestors seeking their blessings.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 40 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/5/6
Title:: Lak Ni Rai Ju Dai [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contain calculations for the Lak Ni calendar making. There are names of Lak Ni months mentioned in it like Kap Seu, Dap Rao, Rai Ngi, Pvk Si and Khut Mit.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 7 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/5/7
Title:: Phe Lung Phe Ban [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is similar to Mohendra Baruah's Phe Lung Phe Ban (EAP373_MohendraBaruah_PheLungPheBan). It contains astrological calculations for match making. These calculations are made based on the birth dates of the boys and girls to be married together. There are images in the last folio of ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 98 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/6
Title:: Bhola Phukan Collection [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This collection of manuscripts belongs to Chaosing who is the great great grandfather of Bhola Phukan.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 160 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/6/1
Title:: Ban Seng [1763-64 or 1823-24]
Scope & Content:: This is a small fortune telling manuscript. Pi Lak Ni, Pvk Singa, Dvn Sip Et. This means 11th month of the Pvk Singa year, which is equivalent to 1763-64 or 1823-24.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 1763-1824
Extent:: 55 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/6/2
Title:: Lik Ka Na [1763-64 or 1823-24]
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains calculations to make the Lak Ni calendar as in Image 0002.tiff, it is written that in the year Lak Ni Kap Si, it is year of the irakor chicken. Pi Lak Ni, Pvk Singa, Dvn Sip Et. This means 11th month of the Pvk Singa year, which is equivalent to 1763-64 or 1823-24. The qua...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 1763-1824
Extent:: 37 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/6/3
Title:: Sang Han [1763-64 or 1823-24]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is about fortune telling and forecasting of outcomes of any kind of happenings. It is used in the ritual Kao phun where nine pundits perform this ritual. In image 0002.tiff, it is written that if a wild dog enters any house it is good in many ways. But if a wild dog enters only th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 1763-1824
Extent:: 68 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/7/1
Title:: Lon Moti [18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a mantra to put away evil spells or spirits. Throughout the manuscript the word LonMoti is frequently in use.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 54 tiff images

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