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ชวน เพชรแก้ว 571 วารสาร ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน ปีที่ ๓๖ ฉบับที่ ๔ ต.ค.-ธ.ค. ๒๕๕๔ Abstract Southern Literature: A Significant Evidence from the South that Challenges Studying Chuan Phetkaew Associate Fellow of the Academy of Arts, The Royal Institute, Thailand ÉNangsue Bud is a written southern literature that recorded various fields of knowledge before printing became prominent. Significant sources for the compilation of knowledge were temples and houses of learned persons. During the time when printing was first introduced some knowledge from the Nangsue Bud was printed as booklets for distribution. Later a number of southern scholars began to seriously collect Nangsue Bud, palm-leaf manuscripts, and documents, resulting in the publication of a large number of literary works being published in succession. During 2001-2004 the Research Project on Southern Wisdom from Literature and Behavior selected 84 literary works to be included in Southern Literature: Selected Works, issued in 2005. Their subject matters deal with stone inscriptions and inscriptions, texts, scriptures, history, chronicles, legends, medicine, significant local incidents, romantic fiction, beliefs and traditions, travels, religious principles, special literary philosophy, law, people and places, customs and rituals, miscellany, and proverbs. This is a fraction of the foundation of southern society which has become way and force that challenge studying. Key words : southern literature, selected literary works, Nangsue Bud, palm-leaf manuscripts