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  • (Far left) The ascetic Kaladevala and the king pay
  • (Left side) The Bodhisatta goes to the Nanda Park in th
  • Thai Buddhist Manuscript inscribed on plam-leaves with a me
  • The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven (right) and a bodhisattva in heaven with his attendants (left)
  • A bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (detail of bottom right)
  • (Left) Prince Siddhattha (Bodhisatta) asks his father
  • Illustrated Sinhalese covers (inside) showing the events between the Bodhisatta's renunciation and the request by Brahna Sahampati that he teach the Docrine after he becomes a Buddha.
  • Bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (detail of bottom left)
  • The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating u
  • The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating
  • The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven (top right) and a bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (bottom)
  • Devas (minor divinities) accompanying a bodhisattva in heaven) (detail)
  • MS Thai 3, detail from back cover
  • Prince Siddhattha is shown travelling to a park in a palanquin drawn by courtiers and soldiers. On his was Prince Siddhattha sees the three signs, an old man, a sick man and a corpse, that lead to his renunciation of secular life.
  • The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven (top right) and a bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (bottom)
  • The newly married couple, Princess Yasodhara and Bodhisatta
  • Cover for Volume 2 in red tooled leather with text in gold
  • The procession to the ploughing ceremony
  • The monk Phra Malai receives a lotus bouquet from a poor woodcutter (left) and receives alms offerings from lay people (right). This manuscript depicts the visits to heaven and hell by Phra Malai
  • (Left) The queen gives birth to the Bodhisatta.
  • Pancaraksa, AD 1653, Ranjana script, Sitavati
  • (Left) The King and the court watch the spectacle
  • A poor woodcutter picks lotus flowers in a pond (right) and presents them to the monk Phra Malai (left)
  • A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces that Prince Siddhattha will prove he is proficientt in the art of shooting arrows, archery to the people
  • King Suddhodana asks brahmins to intertret the Queen's dream.
  • MS Thai 3, two leaves
  • Phra Malai receives alms offerings from lay people (detail of the right side)
  • (Right) The devas ask the Bodhisatta
  • The monk Phra Malai (left) and a scene from hell (right)
  • Illustrated Sinhalese covers (inside) showing the events between the Bodhisatta's renunciation and the request by Brahna Sahampati that he teach the Docrine after he becomes a Buddha. The First Discourse of the Buddha, namely the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta is commonly known as the Great Discourse on the Wheel of Dhamma