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Luang Prasoet Chronicle

In the year 845, the Year of the Hare (2026 BE),[1] His Divine Highness Borommaracha the Lord went to corral elephants[2] in Sai Yoi District.

In the year 846, the Year of the Dragon (2027 BE),[3] His Divine Highness Chetthathirat the Lord and His Divine Highness the Royal Son, His Divine Highness Borommarachathirat the Lord, both entered the priesthood.

In the year 847, the Year of the Serpent (2028 BE),[4] His royal son left the priesthood and that Divine Being was instituted in the position of high viceroy.[5]

In the year 848, the Year of the Horse (2029 BE),[6] His Divine Highness went to corral elephants[2] in Samrit Burana District.

In the year 849, the Year of the Goat (2030 BE),[7] Thao Maharat Luk[8] passed into the Abode of the Brave.[9]

In the year 850, the Year of the Monkey (2031 BE),[10] His Divine Highness Borommarachathirat the Lord went to take Thawai Town, and when the town was about to be taken, ill omens took place in various forms: a cow dropped a calf with eight legs; a hen hatched a four-legged chick out of an egg; a hen hatched six chicks out of three eggs; in addition, white rice[11] grew into leaves. Furthermore, in that same year, His Divine Highness Borommatrailok passed into nirvana[12] in Phitsanulok Town.

In the year 852, the Year of the Dog (2033 BE),[13] inauguration of the erection of the walls of Phichai Town was ordered.

In the year 853, the Year of the Pig (2034 BE),[14] His Divine Highness Borommarachathirat the Lord entered nirvana.[12] Thus His Divine Highness Chetthathirat the Lord assumed kingship of the Divine City of Glorious Ayutthaya under the name of His Divine Highness Ramathibodi.

  1. 1483/84 CE.
  2. 2.0 2.1 A method of catching an entire herd of wild elephants by driving them into a corral (Royal Society, 2020, p. 294).
  3. 1484/85 CE.
  4. 1485/86 CE.
  5. A royal position next in rank to the monarch (Royal Society, 2020, p. 360).
  6. 1486/87 CE.
  7. 1487/88 CE.
  8. Probably a scribal error for Maharat Thao Luk (Thai: มหาราชท้าวลูก; "the high king Thao Luk"), which refers to King Tilokkarat of the Lan Na Kingdom (Fine Arts Department, 1999, p. 215). Thao (Thai: ท้าว) is an archaic title for a monarch (Royal Society, 2020, p. 148). Luk (Thai: ลูก) or Lok (Thai: ลก) is his name, meaning "sixth son" (Damrongrachanuphap, 1991, p. 225).
  9. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named phiralai
  10. 1488/89 CE.
  11. According to the Royal Institute (n.d.), khaosan (Thai: ข้าวสาร) can refer to (1) whie rice; (2) some vines in the genus Raphistemma, whose flowers are edible; (3) the herbal vine Myriopteron extensum.
  12. 12.0 12.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named nirvana
  13. 1490/91 CE.
  14. 1491/92 CE.