การวิเคราะห์วรรณกรรมลายลักษณ์ เรื่อง ท้าวชมพูฉบับภาคใต้ AN ANALYSIS OF THE BUDDHIST LITERARY WORK ENTITLED ‘THAW JAMBU’ SOUTHERN VERSION

Abstract

             This dissertation entitled ‘An Analysis of the Buddhist Literary Works Entitled ‘Jambupati’ Southern Thailand Version’ has three objectives: 1) to study the history and development of the southern literary work entitled Jambupati, 2) to analyze the southern literary work entitled Jambupati, and 3) to analyze Dharma doctrines as appeared in the southern literary work entitled “Jambupati.” This is a Qualitative research done by Studying documentaries including in-depth interview. In the research, it was found that the literary work is regarded as another kind of the Buddhist literature called ‘But’ which is alphabetically written by Thai ancient scripts of early Rattanakosindra period (King Rama the second) wherein the name ‘Thai Yor’ was used. This literary work was originally developed from the Sutta called ‘Jambupatisutta’ or ‘Jambupatisut’. It is believed that it was brought into Thai by a Tibetan Buddhist monk and from there it was also brought into Sri Lanka in the reign of the king called “Paramakosa” approximately 2298-2299 B.E., and after that it spread across all the regions of Thailand. In this work, various Thai styles of composition, such as psalm of ‘Yãnĩ, Chabang, Surãnganãnga etc. were used and this became popular in the southern region. As regards the Buddhist doctrines, the Unwholesome Roots of Action, Three Common Characteristics and Supramundane etc., were used while composing it through evil or protagonist character called ‘Jambupati’. The readers of this literary work can appreciate the essence of the story without having no direct explanation on those virtues.  Besides this, many ideas on local beliefs, Buddhist doctrines, supernaturalism, for instance, were purposely and suitably added including social scenes in the early Rattanakossindra period.