: The story of star-crossed lovers Suthon and Manora lives on in Thailand’s dance and drama #IndiaNEWS The poetic story of Suthon and Manora is one of the most popular Thai literary works and has inspired

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The story of star-crossed lovers Suthon and Manora lives on in Thailand’s dance and drama #IndiaNEWS
The poetic story of Suthon and Manora is one of the most popular Thai literary works and has inspired fine art and the performing arts in Thailand. The theme of the story is rooted in an early Sanskrit text with the title Sudhanakum??ravad??na which is included in the Divy??vad??na, a collection of biographical narratives of important figures in early Buddhist history, dating back to the third or fourth century CE. Another related Sanskrit source is the Kinnar? J??taka in the Mah??vastu, a preface to the Buddhist monastic code. Based on a Pali translation of the Sudhana J??taka, an extra-canonical Birth Tale of the Buddha created in northern Thailand around the 15th century, two poetic versions of Suthon and Manora were then composed in the Thai language: one showing a central Thai origin and another with a Southern Thai cultural context. However, the story is also known in the Lao, Khmer, Mon, Shan and Burmese literary and performing traditions. Scenes from the legend based on the early Indian sources are depicted in a painting in cave one at Ajanta – 5th century CE – in India and on 20 relief panels on the first terrace of Candi Borobudur –8th/9th century CE – in Indonesia, the largest Buddhist monument in the...Read more

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