335 A TRANSLATION OF THE KEBDAII ANNALS, 
We have inded been lucky, replied the ministers, to have escap¬ 
ed the risks of battle. Kalahom having thus fulfilled his mission 
gave a feast of all his good things, eatables and drinkables, 
to the Raja and his 4 chiefs; and at the same time he had his 
acts proclaimed by the beating of all sorts of instruments, 
Kalahom then laid down the Raja’s duties for him. It will 
be, observed he, his duty to exercise forbearance and shew 
kindness towards his subjects, and towards slaves and de¬ 
pendents ; to follow just laws and customs, and to mercifully 
dispense charity towards the poor and the beggar or fakler. 
Moreover where the punishment of death should be justly 
merited, and should be due to any one, as today, to delay the 
execution for three or four days. Further lie enjoined upon, 
the Raja and mantris, that the Rajas of Kedda should not all 
stay in one town or fort. The Raja he directed should 
occupy r fort, and all his chiefs should select separate esta¬ 
blishments. You may perceive, said he, that large tracts of 
land have been left dry by the sea. and are available for use, 
and that here even where I am now residing there are many- 
level and clear spots or tracts very fit for settlements. To 
these instuctions the four ministers and every body else lent a 
willing ear, and expressed their assent. 
So the Raja Pra Ong Maha Potisat prolonged his stay in 
Kalahom’s fort. The days were spent in hunting, and all 
kinds of amusements, and Kalahom in the evenings instruct¬ 
ed the Raja in his duties, and gave him hints for his conduct 
as a prince (or Phriya), 
When the Raja and Kalahom went out in the morning to 
hunt, each was mounted on a separate elephant, followed by 
netters and dogs, aud accompanied by the chiefs and officers of 
both ; every one was delighted, as from the abundance of all 
kinds of game no one thought of the morrow. 
One day while thus abroad Raja Pra Ong Maha Potisat 
discovered a hut in the forest in which an old man resided 
with his wife. A clump of bambus, which grew near the 
house, had a protuberance in the middle where the joint was 
unusually large. So he ordered this knot to be cut and 
brought away. To vary the scene Kalahom took the Raja 
to the sea shore to fish and collect shells. This long stay of 
the Raja was owing to the delay occasioned by the manufac¬ 
turing of gold and silver flowers which Pra Ong Maha 
Potisat had ordered to be made in order that they should 
be transmitted and respectfully presented to the Maha 
Rdjd Besar or great Baja (of isiam) in token of his having 
become the Baja of Keddd, and as an earnest of the 
