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analysis of the ancient ANNALS OF SIAM. 
his child in the shadow of the palace to protect him from the rays 
of the sun, hut the spire of the palace inclined as if to indicate the 
dignity of the child—the shadow of the palace appeared to fly. 
The king surprised at this prodigy, called the hunter and asked 
whose child it was. The latter said that he had found it in the 
forest and that he had brought it up as his own adopted child. 
The king then inquired if he had not found anything with the 
child, the hunter told that he had found a ring and a mantle. The 
king sent him forthwith to fetch them and having recognized them 
as the same mantle and ring which he had given to the Nakh, he 
had no doubt that the child was his own son. He gave a recom¬ 
pense to the hunter, and took the child into his palace. He called 
him Arunraxa Kuman and broughthim up with another son named 
Riththi Kuman. 
The birth of the prince Arunraxa Kuman had been predicted by 
Somanakhodom on the occasion which we axe going to mention. 
One day Buddah being about to take his meal near the village 
panchamarakham where afterwards the city of Hariphunxai was 
built, a nakh caused a spring of water to gush out in order that 
Buddha might drink and bathe himself. Buddha then predicted 
that the nakh who had done him this charity would supersede the 
Buddist era in its thousandth year, and establish a new one, that its 
empire would embrace all the country watered by the river which 
had sprung up, and that all the kings of Xomphun tharib (jambhu 
dvipa) would render it homage. 
The prince Arun raxa was bom in the 950 year of the Buddhist 
era. The king Aphaiyakham muni wished to give to his son a 
kingdom worthy of his destiny, aud as there only remained a 
princess in the kingdom of Saxanalai or Savanthevalok he gave 
this princess in marriage to his son with this kingdom ^ and the 
new king took the name of I 1 hay a Ruang. He built a great 
number of pagodas, and amongst others a temple and chedi in the 
place where the Rusi Saxanalai had formerly buried thereliques of 
Somanakhodom. This place was named Khao lang leng (moun¬ 
tain of the vulture’s nest). All the kings of Xomphuthayib struck 
by the power of the new monarch, offered homage to him as had 
!b een foretold. 
The king Ruang having attained his 50th year in the1000th year of 
the Buddhist era, his superior merit acquired him a white elephant 
with black teeth. In this year, the same which was the year ma 
me (year of the goat), on the first of the sixth month he caused an 
assembly to be held of 500 Buddhist priests amongst whom was 
Phraphuth thakhosa of the pagoda Khao rang reng,to celebrate 
the establishment of a new era. The meeting took place m the 
temple Khokasing khciram in the centre of the city of Saxanalai. 
The kings of Xam pliu thavib, that is, of Thai, Taos, Mon, Chm, 
Phama, Langka, Phrahm, went to the meeting. # 
It was then that the king Ruang gave the Thai alphabet, as well 
