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meaning the Sole Golden Parasol. He then marched an armed force in to attack the Chiang Kran City, which he successfully conquered, prompting King Chairacha to march an armed force thereto. They engaged in mighty struggles, in which the Burmese and Raman armed force was routed in defeated by the Thai armed force. The Thai thus got the city of Chiang Kran back.
The death of King Chairachathirat in the Year of the Horse, 908 LE, 2089 BE,[1] was followed by upheaval in the Glorious Ayutthaya Kingdom as Thao Sisudachan, the mother of King Yotfa, allowed her illicit lover, Khun Worawongsathirat, to usurp the throne. At that time, the Burmese king Tabinshweti, who once fought with King Chairachathirat at Chiang Kran City, obtained victory over neighbouring lands and annexed Mon and Burma under his power, upon which he established the city of Hanthawati as his capital. Accordingly, he was known as the king of Hanthawati. Hearing the news of the upheaval in Glorious Ayutthaya, he found it to be an opportunity to expand his power and to fix the negative reputation of having been defeated by the Thai. He then marched an immense armed force in by way of the Three Pagodas Pass. As regards the Glorious Ayutthaya Kingdom, after Thao Sisudachan and Khun Worawongsathirat put King Yotfa to death through their mutual intrigue, Khun Worawongsathirat could remain on the throne for forty-two days, upon which the members of the government and nobility helped each other put Thao Sisudachan and Khun Worawongsathirat to death before inviting Prince Thianracha, a younger brother of King Chairachathirat, to ascend the throne in the Year of the Monkey,
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