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 
Svithammarat to here. In the midst of the jungle 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 
acistern. 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. 
Ti 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 

