Page Leaf From Burmah Book
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Mar 1938
name: label: Donor Name
content: Thomas H. Gillis
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PE-SA-PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPT-LEAF FROM A PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPT. WRITTEN IN BURMESE-TEXT FROM SOME PART OF A JATAKA STORY: DEVILA HERMIT WHO LIVED IN THE HIMALAYAS, ONCE PUT A CURSE ON NARADA HERMIT FOR SHOWING DISRESPECT. THE CURSE WAS THAT THE SUN WHICH WOULD RISE THE NEXT DAY WOULD CRACK NARADA'S HEAD INTO 7 PARTS. BUT NARADA HAVING DONE SOME MERITORIOUS DEEDS IN HIS LAST EXISTENCE, HAS THE POWER TO STOP THE SUN FROM RISING THE NEXT DAY. THE KING AND THE PEOPLE BEING WORRIED THAT THE SUN HAS NOT RISEN THE NEXT DAY, WENT TO NARADA HERMIT TO ASK ABOUT IT. HE TOLD THEM ABOUT THE CURSE. THE KING TOLD NARADA TO GO APOLOGIZE AND PAY HIS RESPECTS TO DEVILA. NARADA DIDN'T GO OF HIS OWN ACCORD, SO HE WAS MADE TO STAND IN WATER WITH SOME EARTH PUT ON HIS HEAD. THE CURSE WAS THEN BROKEN. THE EARTH ON NARADA'S HEAD FELL INTO 7 PIECES-WHICH SHOWS THAT IF PEOPLE HAVE FAITH YOU COULD COMMAND ANYTHING, AS YOU WOULD A FAITHFUL SERVANT. (MISS ONMA MAW, BURMA). INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Burma (Myanmar), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 147174
label: USNM Number
content: E5716-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Book