Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

5/1/1981 - 8/31/1981

Funding Totals

$3,500.00 (approved)
$3,480.00 (awarded)


Translation of PHRA MALAI KHAM LUANG: Royal version of the Story of the Venerable Malia

FAIN: RL-*0733-81

Bonita P. Brereton
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To support translation of the "Royal Version of the Hero Phra Malai," a Thai religious text of the early eighteenth century frequently represented in templemurals and sculpture; important to the study of Asian religions, anthropology, art history and oral traditions.