Dear listmembers,

continous paintings of the Vessantara-Jataka murals in Sri Lankan monasteries

depict always an episode which I cannot trace back to Pali-, buddhist Sanskrit or

Tibetean sources.

It is the following episode (picture attached):

the Brahman Jujaka gets for the release of Vessantara's daughter

golden coins accoring to the weight of this girl. The murals depicting

always a balance with Kṛṣṇajalī (the daughter) sitting in one

scale pan, coins are visible the second pan.

Now I could find the description of this part of the mural in the Sinhalese tradition (13th century).

Did anyone came across literal descriptions with a similar content?

Probably in Chinese, Burmese or Siam sources?

Best

Heiner

(Rolf Heinrich Koch)