34 On some Siamese Inscriptions. [No. 1, 



(Maha-thero or the great Thero). Amongst the aged teachers there is 

 a learned one, who has read through the Pidok in all its three parts. 

 He is the head of the tribe of savans, excelling above all others in this 

 town of Sukhotay, and there is none like him, from the town of 

 Srithammarat to here. In the midst of the jnngle there is a monas- 

 tery. It is very large and roomy and exceedingly beautiful. At the 

 eastern side of this town of Sukhotay there is a monastery with vene- 

 rable professors ; there is a royal lake ; there is a forest of areca-palms 

 and betel- vines ; there are fields aud cultivated tracts ; there are home- 

 steads with gardens ; there are houses, large and small ; there is a forest 

 of mangoe trees ; a forest of tamarinds handsome to look at and care- 

 fully kept. At the south of the town of Sukhotay there is a market 

 and a school-room ; there is the palace ; there is a forest of cocoa-palms, 

 a forest of thorny areca ; there are fields and cultivated tracts ; there 

 are homesteads and gardens ; there are houses, large and small. To 

 the north of the town of Sukhotay, there is a convent with the cells 

 of venerable teachers, who live by alms ; there is a pretty lake with 

 plenty of fish ; there are plantations of cocoa-palms, plantations of 

 resin trees, plantations of mangoes and tamarinds ; there is water in 

 a cistern. There is also the lord Khaphung, the demon-angel, who 

 is the mightiest in that mountain and above every other demon. In 

 this country every one of the nobles reverences the town of Sukhotay, 

 and observes the rules of adoration in his worship, paying homage. 

 This town is an upright one. This town stands well with the demons. 

 If mistakes are committed in the worship, if the sacrifice is not correct, 

 the demons in yonder mountain do not guard and protect the town ; 

 they disappear. 



When the era was dated 1214, in the year of the dragon, the father- 

 benefactor Ramkhamheng, the sovereign of this country (town) of 

 Sisatxanalai- Sukhotay planted a palm tree, and after nineteen rice 

 crops had gone by, he ordered the workmen to prepare the smooth 

 surface of a stone, which was fastened and secured on the middle of 

 the trunk of the palm tree. In the days of the dark moon, at the 

 beginning and at the end, for eight days, and on the days of the full 

 moon and the quarters, the assembly of the aged teachers and the 

 priests ascend the surface of the stone to rest ; and the whole circle of 

 pious laymen accomplish the holy law in remembering and observing 



