มหาชาติไทลื้อ กัณฑ์ที่ 8-13 : กลวิธีทางวรรณศิลป์และภาพสะท้อนสังคมและวัฒนธรรม / จตุพร เพชรบูรณ์ = The Tai Lue Mahachat chapter 8-13 : literary techniques and reflection of society and culture / Chatuporn Petchaboon
To study the tradition that concerned with Mahachat of the Tai Lue people in Xishuangbanna Autonomous Region of Tai ethnic groups Yunan People’s Republic of China. In order to transliterate Mahachat of the Tai Lue chapter 8-13 from the manuscript in the Complete Chinese Pattra Buddhist Scripture from Tai Lue script to Thai script. In order to study literary techniques in Mahachat of the Tai Lue chapter 8-13. I collected field works in Xishuangbanna for two months. I used the data to analyze reflection of their society, culture and the ritual of offering the scripture that mainly related to this literary work. The study reveals that Tai Lue has two tradition concerned with Mahachat: offering the Vessantara scripture tradition and offering the Mahapang scripture tradition. It is believed that bring about the great merit for themselves and the great merit devoted to their ancestors orderly. They believe in result of offering Vessantara scripture merit more than listening to Vessantara Jataka. Mahachat of the Tai Lue chapter 8-13 uses of simply and beautiful word. For literay techniques found are the use of alliterations, the splendid word selection, the reduplication, the use of character’s name, the use of figures of speech and the use of extending chapter’s name. This literary techniques are made pleasant sound, clear images and various emotional feeling. That bring about the audience who listened to the Mahachat of the Tai Lue local version conceive emotional felling and lead to bright understanding of Bhodhisatta’s perfection of foremost alms. From the study found that Mahachat of the Tai Lue chapter 8-13 appers reflection of society and local: costume, food, utensils, the roles and relationships of people in society, beliefs, proverb and the performance of arts.
