Yattikammavaca (ຍັດຕິກັມມະວາຈາ) (1791)

This manuscript (written partially with yellow ink on blackened khòi paper and partially with black ink on greyish khòi paper) is about the way a proper ordination ceremony is organized, the qualities of a person who is going to become a monk or novice. This text is a compilation of questions raised by the senior monk who presides over the ceremonie and the respective questions which the monk should know. The colophon on the last page (written in Tham-Lao and modern Lao script) gives only the date (1991) in various eras but not the name of the scribe and/or the sponsor of this manuscript. Date of original material: CS 1153 (huang khai year); 1791. 24 folios.