Jaya Paritta Origin

[Sumanatissa]

Is there anybody who knows the composer and the time of Jaya Paritta?

[karl_lew]

Have you seen Jaya Manggala and Jaya Paritta - Dhamma Wheel ?

[Sumanatissa]

Yes I did.
I checked with some other individuals too and they all had just one answer.
“It is not a paritta from The Buddha Himself, but, had been composed by some unknown author, many centuries after Maha Parinibbana.”
So as far as I am concerned, nobody knows the composer or the time the Jaya Paritta was composed.

[mikenz66]

Here’s some information from Ven. Ānandajoti, via Ven Dhammanando:
https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?p=320028#p320028

@Dhammanando

@Bhikkhu Pesala

It is mentioned as a traditional chant at weddings. Does anyone know more about it — when it was composed, for example?

Bhante,

I asked Ven. Ānandajoti, who’s exceptionally erudite in matters relating to Pali verse. He replied:

@Ānandajoti

Hi Ven., as far as I know its provenance is around the 18th century in Lanna. How I know this for the moment escapes me, but it is firmly there in my mind.

By the way, as you will have seen, it is full of grammatical errors, like:
taṁ tejasā bhavatu te jayamaṅgalāni!

which should be:

taṁ tejasā bhavantu te jayamaṅgalāni!

The reason is because of a poor writer trying to fit the metre. It was rewritten in proper Pali by one learned Sri Lankan monk in the mid 20th century. Maybe that is where I know it’s provenance from.

At my local Thai Wat it’s chanted every morning after the Thai Morning Chant, and at the pre-lunchtime chanting on Uposatha days and Sundays. I collected the sutta references for each verse here: https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=11333