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Siamese History.
June.

case, two gilded salvers, a gold goglet, a royal sword, and some other presents.

Year 765. News of the death of the governor of Pitsanulok arrived, and that all the northern provinces were in a state of anarchy. The king immediately marched to Prabáng to settle affairs. The governor treated him so respectfully that he soon returned and sent his eldest son to govern Supanburi, and his second to govern Preksi, and his third to govern Chainát.

Year 780. Indra rájá died after a reign of fourteen years. His two eldest sons returned to Sia Yutiyá and fought for the throne; they encountered with spears, cut each other's throats, and both died together. The nobles then repaired to the third son and told him all the particulars. He assumed the government under the title Rájátirát. He had the bodies of his two brothers burned at the wat of the Mighty Relic, where he erected to their memory two sacred spires, and changed the name to 'Royal Fortune.'

Year 783. Rájátirát came down from Chainát and took possession of the royal city Sia Yutiyá, where he appointed his son Pranakhón Indra king. Rájátirát brought with him images of cows and various other animals and deposited some in the wat Mighty Relic, and some in the wat Sanpet.

Year 786. Wat Mayong was founded by Rájátirát. His son Rámmesawan went to Pitsanulok. At that time, the tears fell from the eyes of the image of Budha and appeared to be blood.

Year 788. The royal residence was destroyed by fire. Year 789. the three cornered throne was burnt. Year 890, Rájátirát sent an expedition against Chiangmai. He was unable to enter and plunder it, and being taken sick, returned. In the year 792, he started another expedition to Chiangmai, and took 120,000 captives and returned.

Year 796. The Rájá died after a reign of sixteen years, and his son Rámmesawan succeeded him, assumed the title Borommatrylokanát, (the dependence of heaven, earth, and hell,) turned his palace into a wat called Sisanpet, and went and lived beside the river. He then built two palaces, made a total overturning of officers and offices, founded cities and wats, and changed the names of old ones.

Year 802. The ravages of the small-pox swept away multitudes. In the year 803, an expedition was fitted out against Malacca.[1] And in 804, an expedition was started against Sisopturn, and the army being reinforced pitched at a place called Don.

Year 805. Paddy was a fuang[2] for a cocoanut shell full, and a kian[3] was 250 ticals. In the year 808, great pains were taken to advance the Budhist religion, and 550 images of Budha were cast. In 807, a memorable festival in honor of priests was kept. At this time,

  1. ↑ Crawfurd's Indian Archipelago says, that in a.d. 1340 (one century earlier than this date), the king of Malacca engaged in war with Siam, whose king was killed in a subsequent battle.
  2. ↑ The fuang is (illegible text) of a tical.
  3. ↑ This is a measure in Siam consisting of eighty baskets of twenty-five cocoanut shells full.
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