In the year 854, the Year of the Rat (2035 BE),[1] grand stupas were instituted for the relics of His Divine Highness Borommatrailok and His Divine Highness Borommarachathirat the Lord.
In the year 858, the Year of the Dragon (2039 BE),[2] He conducted the rite of Twenty-Five[3] for Himself and had the Ocean Churning rite[4] performed.
In the year 859, the Year of the Serpent (2040 BE),[5] He had the rite of Primary Action[6] held.
In the year 861, the Year of the Goat (2042 BE),[7] inaugurated was the building of an image hall[8] [at] Si Sanphet Temple.
In the year 862, the Year of the Ape (2043 BE),[9] His Divine Highness Ramathibodi the Lord ordered inauguration of the casting of the buddha Phra Si Sanphet and the casting was inaugurated on Sunday, the 8th waxing-moon day of the 6th month.[10] Once it reached the year 865, the Year of the Boar (2046 BE),[11] on Friday, the 11th waxing-moon day of the 8th month,[12] celebrations were held for the buddha Phra Si Sanphet. Measured from his feet to the top of his aureole, that buddha was eight wa tall; his face was four sok long; the width of his face was three sok; and his chest was eleven sok wide. And the bronze cast into that buddha weighed five myriad and three thousand chang. The gold coating him weighed five myriad and three thousand chang: in the front was the seventh-grade gold weighing and two kha, in the back was the sixth-grade gold weighing two kha.
In the year 877, the Year of the Boar (2058 BE),[13] on Tuesday, the 15th waxing-moon day of the 11th month,[14] at the time of eight chan,[15] three roek, and nine roek after the dayspring, His Divine Highness Ramathibodi went unto Nakhon Lamphang Town. He conquered the town.
- ↑ 1492/93 CE.
- ↑ 1496/97 CE.
- ↑ A silver birthday celebration (Royal Society, 2020, p. 33). The name of the rite, benchaphit (Thai: เบญจาพิศ), is believed to be from Pali pañcavīsa ("twenty-five") (ibid.).
- ↑ A rite in which the Samudra Manthana event is reenacted (Royal Society, 2020, p. 113; Phakdikham, 2015, p. 31). The name of the rite, duekdamban (Thai: ดึกดำบรรพ์), is believed to be from Old Khmer dïka ("water") + tpañ ("to weave, to spin") (Royal Society, 2023, p. 54).
- ↑ 1497/98 CE.
- ↑ The Royal Society (2020, p. 113) says it was a rite which served as the first stage of a royal ceremony which consisted of three stages, the first stage being called pathommakam (Thai: ปฐมกรมม; "primary action"), the second stage being called matthayommakam (Thai: มัธยมกรรม; "intermediate action"), and the third stage being called udommakam (Thai: อุดมกรรม; "ultimate action"). However, Phakdikham (2015, pp. 43–44) believed all the three stages were part of a royal ceremony for catching of elephants, whilst Damrongrachanuphap (1991, p. 243) said pathommakam was a military ceremony.
- ↑ 1499/50 CE.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Fine Arts Department (1999, p. 218): Sunday, 5 April 2043 BE (1501 CE?).
- ↑ 1503/04 CE.
- ↑ Fine Arts Department (1999, p. 218): Friday, 2 June 2046 BE (1503 CE?).
- ↑ 1515/52 CE.
- ↑ Fine Arts Department (1999, p. 219): Tuesday, 25 September 2058 BE (1515 CE).
- ↑ According to the Royal Society (2020, p. 90), chan (Thai: ชั้น), which literally translates as "level", is a historical unit of time equal to a level of a shadow cast by a tree branch. However, the Fine Arts Department (1999, p. 219) said it was equal a level of a shadow of a person standing in the sun.
