Rituals in Raja festival, rites of house building, checking dates for house building based on the age of husband and wife, checking the weather

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Collection: Endangered Cham Manuscripts of Vietnam
Title: Rituals in Raja festival, rites of house building, checking dates for house building based on the age of husband and wife, checking the weather
Resource Type: text
Genre: manuscripts (document genre)
calendars (documents)
Date Created: 1800-2000
Ownership: The original material was passed down from ancestors and given to Ms. Dong Thi Hang's father. After he died, she has kept it up to now. The material has lasted for over 100 years, and it has been passed down for generations.
Extent: 196 unnumbered pages
Physical Description: Cham manuscripts. The material was bound into volumes with thread. The covers were made of cloth. The content was written in Akhar Thrah language in India ink on thick cement paper. The volume was torn in the left edge that linked the two pages in the middle.
Note(s): The material covers the themes of religious rituals, calendar and architecture. The content is about rituals in Raja festival, rites of house building, checking dates for house building based on the age of husband and wife, checking the weather.
Funding Source: Digitization of this manuscript was funded by the British Libaries' Endangered Archives Programme through the project, Digitisation of the Endangered Cham Manuscripts of Vietnam (no. EAP698).
Language: Chamic languages
Topic: Religion
Rituals
Architecture
Subject: Religion
Rituals
Architecture