ANALYSIS OF TUB ANCIENT ANNALS OF SIAM. 
500 
Plira-mang, and others Phaya-krek. This last, who they say 
reigned over Camboja, appears to have the preference. The 
Christian year 1848 corresponds to the year 1210 of this era, 
which would thus commence in the year 638 of the Christian era. 
This era is not employed in the manuscript of which I give here 
the analysis. The era of Buddha is only found in it, and as the 
Siamese have the practise of always giving the dates in figures, 
we can scarcely trust for these dates their ancient annals, on 
account of the mistakes which may have crept into them through 
the inadvertence of copiests. 
Having given these few details, I will now proceed to the 
analysis of my manuscript. 
Religions facts 'placed at the beginning of the M.S. 
The Buddha Somalia khodom died the 3rd of the 
full moon of the sixth month of the year Ma 
Seng or the Serpent. 
The Indian king Oxat Satru (ajata satru) assembled 
the first Sangkliayanai or Buddhist council .... 
One hundred years afterwards the Indian king Kala 
Sokkarat (kala Sokkaraja) assembled the second 
Sangkhayanai (Sanggayanaya). 
In the year 218 of Buddha the king Sithamma 
Sok (Sri dhamma Soka) assembled the third 
Sangkhayanai... 
The fourth Sanghayanai was held in the Buddhist 
year 400 (the book does not say who assembled it) 
In the year 965 of Buddha, the Buddhist Phra- 
phuth'tha khosa (Buddha ghosa) preached the 
tham (dhamma) of Lanka (Ceylon) (in Camboja 
it is said).... 
Year 
before 
Christ. 
Year 
of Bud¬ 
dha. 
543 
443 
100 
325 
218 
143 
400 
after 
Christ 
422 
965 
Commencement of the History of Siam . 
Two brothers of the brahmin caste, who lived when Somana- 
khodom embraced a religious life, were both rusi or holy men. 
The one was named Saxxanalai, and the other Siththi mong khon. 
Their nephews inhabited ten villages governed by a brahmin woman 
mother of phra-Saributa then the first disciple of Somanakhodom. 
These two brothers seeing their end approaching, wished before 
quitting this world, to give their last advice to their nephews. 
Then the Rusi Saxxana.lai having called together the oldest persons 
of the ten villages, gave them instructions to live in peace together, 
