Single-text manuscript containing a didactic work. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Incomplete. Covers added by the project team. Owner(s) of original material: Novice (kui raṅʻ) Rhve U.
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 ...