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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 relies, 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 relies. 
Then three years went by. In former times there was no written 
aracter of the Thai. When the era dated 1205, in the year of the 
orse, the father-benefactor Ramkhamheng, having consulted with the 
rned teachers, established the letters of the alphabet for the Thai, 
hich exist since that time, when the king arranged them for use. 
hen it was, that the father-benefactor Ramkhamheng became verily 
king and royal lord to all the Thai, because then verily he became 
