designThe lettered square
| Where it goes | back, chest, arms, legs |
|---|
What it is
A grid of letters or numerals, read as a formula rather than as a picture.
The long version
The Lanna volume notes which numerals go in: Burmese numerals, which the Lanna call hora numerals and hold to be the right ones for saiyasat rites, while the Lanna numerals — lek nai tham — are kept for inscribing the dhamma. Two number systems, two jobs, on one page and on one body.
Attested — the same book says early Lanna took these beliefs from Pagan and then developed its own forms.
Connected to
- Sak yant The tradition it belongs to.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | อภิมหามนต์คาถา (Supreme Maha Mantra Katha), pp. 19–21 — held and digitised in the wichaa.net manuscript corpus, item 6968 | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- อภิมหามนต์คาถา (Supreme Maha Mantra Katha), pp. 19–21 — held and digitised in the wichaa.net manuscript corpus, item 6968
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there