Mixed Bundle

Mixed bundle containing parts of four different palm-leaf manuscripts. Red lac. covers. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Inscribed, decorated, woven cotton ribbon, 406 cm. Manuscript storage bag: brown velvet with white cotton lining inside and a snap button attached. Extent: 1 palm-leaf manuscript. Additional date information: Copied c. 1860s-1900s Keywords: Sutta-pitaka, Didacticisms, Remove, Law and Legal affairs, Buddhism, Jātaka, Liturgical, Languages and Grammar. This manuscript contains the following 10 texts: EAP1150/1/263/1: Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī aṭṭhakathā pāṭha (Bhikkhupātimokkha part) Description: A section of the commentary on Pātimokkhasutta dealing with the disciplinary rules for Buddhist monks. Traditionally ascribed to Buddhaghosa and meant to serve as a brief handbook. Separate transmission of the part of the text continains the rules for male monks and omission of the respective section containing the rules for nuns is rather common in Burmese manuscripts because the rules for nuns had no practical application aside of curricular studies. Extent: One fascicle of 92 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ka [5] - jai [97]). Author(s)/Creator(s): Ascribed to Buddhaghosa. Additional date information: Copied c. 1880s-1900s EAP1150/1/263/2: Siṅgalasutta pāli Description: A discourse of the Buddha from the Pathikavagga section of the Dīghanikāya collection, provides a normative picture of Buddhist social ethics. Extent: ḍhai-ṇa.r. Additional date information: Copied 1882 EAP1150/1/263/3: Siṅgalasutta nissaya Description: A bilingual translation of a discourse of the Buddha from the Pathikavagga section of the Dīghanikāya collection, provides a normative picture of Buddhist social ethics. Extent: ṇa.r - ṇāḥ. Additional date information: Copied 1882 EAP1150/1/263/4: Gaṇṭhipabba Description: Vernacular exegetical work incorporating Pali texts of four discourses of the Buddha (Āḷavaka-, Vijaya- and Tuvaṭṭaka-sutta) and their bilingual explanation based on Pali commentarial and grammatical texts. Extent: ta-dī. Author(s)/Creator(s): Munindaparamadhammasīri mahādhammarājādhirājaguru. Additional date information: Copied 1882 EAP1150/1/263/5: Dhammapada pāli Description: A canonical Buddhist work in Pali verse belonging to the Khuddaka collection. Summarizes the points of Buddhist doctrine, ethics and practice in a form of short stanzas. Extent: ka-khī. Additional date information: Copied c. 1867 EAP1150/1/263/6: Moggallānapadasādhana pāṭha Description: Padasādhana or Moggallānapadasādhana is a Pali grammatical work compiled by Piyadassi in the 12th or 13th century to comment on Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa. In Burma, Padasādhana is rather known as Mūla Moggallāna or Moggallāna-sutta. This exemplar represents an edition of Moggallānapadasādhana made by Ññoṅ kan Charā tau Cakkindābhisirisaddhammadhaja mahādhammarājādhirājaguru (Cakkinda) in 1832. Extent: khu-khe.r. Author(s)/Creator(s): Piyadassi. Additional date information: Copied 1867 EAP1150/1/263/7: Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa pāṭha. Saññādikaṇḍa Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa Description: The first section of Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa. Moggallānavyākaraṇa (short rules of Pali grammar intended for memorization) accompanied by vutti (explanation of rules), both ascribed to Moggallāna, is one of the standard works on Pali grammar alongside with Kaccāyana. A separate transmission of the first three sections of Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa (out of six) as in this exemplar is attested, for example, in the ms SBB Hs.or. 3247. Extent: gha.v-ghī.r. Author(s)/Creator(s): Moggallāna. Additional date information: Copied 1867 EAP1150/1/263/8: Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa pāṭha. Nāma Kāraka [syādikaṇḍa] Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa Description: The second section of Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa. Moggallānavyākaraṇa (short rules of Pali grammar intended for memorization) accompanied by vutti (explanation of rules), both ascribed to Moggallāna, is one of the standard works on Pali grammar alongside with Kaccāyana. A separate transmission of the first three sections of Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa (out of six) as in this exemplar is attested, for example, in the ms SBB Hs.or. 3247. Extent: ghī.r-ṅā.r. Author(s)/Creator(s): Moggallāna. Additional date information: Copied 1867 EAP1150/1/263/9: Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa pāṭha. Samāsakaṇḍa Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa Description: The third section of Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa. Moggallānavyākaraṇa (short rules of Pali grammar intended for memorization) accompanied by vutti (explanation of rules), both ascribed to Moggallāna, is one of the standard works on Pali grammar alongside with Kaccāyana. A separate transmission of the first three sections of Moggallānavuttipakaraṇa (out of six) as in this exemplar is attested, for example, in the ms SBB Hs.or. 3247. Extent: ṅā.r-ṅo. Author(s)/Creator(s): Moggallāna. Additional date information: Copied 1867 EAP1150/1/263/10: Bhūridatta jātaka nissaya Description: A bilingual translation of Bhūridatta jātaka. Extent: tī-pāḥ. Condition of original material: Incomplete fascicle. Author(s)/Creator(s): Guṇaraṃsālaṅkāra. Additional date information: Copied 1877.