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Phra Malai
This Phra Malai manuscript is written in Cambodian Mul script with some Pali scripture excerpts. The illustrations, some of which are damaged, include: Phra Malai in a landscape with a corpse (damaged) (fol. 1), Indra and Brahma on an orange ground (damaged) (fol. 2), hell scenes (fol. 5), a heavenly being on top of a kala head and a green demon (fol. 5), a lotus scene (very rubbed) (fol. 23), an old man and a girl (fol. 39), a group of nineteen naked boys pulling a dark-skinned mendicant (fol. 40), two seated figures with a stupa (fol 41), a man with a bow and a dog, and Jujaka (fol. 55), a hermit pointing the way to Vessantara's forest of dwelling (fol. 71), and two heavenly beings (fol. 72).
Provenance
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Mr. Yoshie Shinomoto, Monkton, MD [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1993, by gift.
Geographies
Thailand (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 5 5/16 x 26 1/4 in. (13.5 x 66.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Yoshie Shinomoto, 1993
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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W.832