Page:ประชุมพงศาวดาร (ภาค ๑) - ๒๔๕๗.pdf/140

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
Reign of Borommatrailokkanat
119

In the year 804, the Year of the Dog (1985 BE),[1] His Divine Highness Borommarachathirat the Lord went to take Chiang Mai Town; and He failed to approach and seize the town, for with an illness He came down; and His royal host returned.

In the year 806, the Year of the Rat (1987 BE),[2] [His Divine Highness] went to suppress factions,[3] and He set His royal host in the district of Pathai Khasem.[4] On that occasion, having taken twelve myriad captives, the royal host returned.

In the year 810, the Year of the Dragon (1991 BE),[5] His Divine Highness Borommarachathirat the Lord entered nirvana.[6] So His royal child, His Divine Highness Ramesuan the Lord, assumed kingship under the name of His Divine Highness Borommatrailok the Lord.

In the year 813, the Year of the Goat (1994 BE),[7] on that occasion, the high king[8] came to take Chakangrao Town. Having conquered it, he came to take Sukhothai Town. Failing to approach and seize the town, he retired his host and returned.

In the year 816, the Year of the Dog (1997 BE),[9] on that occasion, the evil bane[10] befell all the people that so many died.

In the year 817, the Year of the Pig (1998 BE),[11] a host was commissioned to go and take Malaka Town.

In the year 818, the Year of the Rat (1999 BE),[12] a host was commissioned to go and take Li Sop Thin Town. On that occasion, [His Divine Highness] went to reinforce the host, faring north to set His royal host in Khon District.

In the year 819, the Year of the Ox (2000 BE),[13] on that occasion, rice was dear, being eight hundred bia per thanan. When reckoned at the rate of one bia equal to eight hundred fueang, a cartload cost three chang and ten bat.

  1. 1442/43 CE.
  2. 1444/45 CE.
  3. According to the newly discovered Royal Chronicle of Wachirayan Royal Library (Chronicle No. 222 2/A 104), these were political factions in the Khmer Empire that opposed to the annexation of their empire by the Suphannaphum Dynasty of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (Phongsiphian, 2012, p. 74).
  4. Pathai Khasem (Thai: ปะท้ายเขษม) may be translated as "Fort of Peace" (Phongsiphian, 2012, p. 92), as it is possibly from Old Khmer pandāya ("fort, fortress") and khsema ("peace, tranquillity").
  5. 1448/49 CE.
  6. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named nirvana
  7. 1451/52 CE.
  8. A title given to the king of the Lan Na Kingdom (Royal Society, 2020, p. 251). The king of Lan Na referred to here is Tilokkarat (Fine Arts Department, 1999, p. 215).
  9. 1454/55 CE.
  10. Smallpox (Royal Society, 2020, p. 142).
  11. 1455/56 CE.
  12. 1456/57 CE.
  13. 1457/58 CE.