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the victorious precepts. The father-benefactor Ramkhamheng, the 

 sovereign of the country of Sitxanalai-Sukhotay, ascending to the 

 surface of the stone, sat down ; and the host of the lords and the sons 

 of the nobles, the whole multitude, paid homage to him for their vil- 

 lages, paid homage for their towns. On the first and the last day of 

 the dark moon, on the extinguished moon, and at the full moon, the 

 white elephant was adorned in its trappings of costly gold, as it has 

 always been the custom to do. Its name is Ruchasi. The father- 

 benefactor Ramkhamheng, having mounted on its back, proceeds to 

 worship the image of Phra-Phuth in the jungle. He has brought 

 forth the engravings from the town of Xolajong, to place them in the 

 foundation, together with the glorious relics, the jewels holy and 

 splendid from the cave on the source of the waters, the cave on the 

 river's bank, from the precious fountain in the middle of the palm 

 forest. Of the two halls, the one is called the golden, the other 

 the strength of the protecting Buddha. The flat stone, called 

 Manang-sila, in the form of an alms-bowl, is placed (as Dagob) above 

 the relics, to close the foundation formed by the stone. Then all men 

 saw and acknowledged, that the father-benefactor Ramkhamheng, son 

 of the father-benefactor Sinitharathiya, had become king in the coun- 

 try Sri Satxanalai-Sukhotay and over the Ma-kao, the Lao and the 

 Thay ; over all towns, below and above, under the vault of heaven. 



All the inhabitants of the mountain U, the dwellers on the banks 

 of the river, were called out in the year of the pig, when the era dated 

 1209. They were ordered to dig and take out the holy relics. Hav- 

 ing come upon them and seen them, they made offerings and worship- 

 ped the holy relics. At a favourable day of the sixth month, they 

 took, them out and brought them, to be buried in the centre of the 

 town of Sisatxanalai. A pagoda was placed upon them and stone- 

 towers were erected in a circle around the holy relics. 



Then three years went by. In former times there was no written 

 character of the Thai. When the era dated 1205, in the year of the 

 horse, the father-benefactor Ramkhamheng, having consulted with the 

 learned teachers, established the letters of the alphabet for the Thai, 

 which exist since that time, when the king arranged them for use. 

 Then it was, that the father-benefactor Ramkhamheng became verily 

 the king and royal lord to all the Thai, because then verily he became 



