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Whereas, according to the Thai customary practice since antiquity, the first day of the waning moon of the first month was [originally] observed as the New Year's Day, which was in line with the tradition of the holy religion of Buddhism that observes the season of winter as the beginning of a year, [but] this custom was later changed in accordance with the Brahman tradition which uses the first day of the waxing moon of the fifth month as the New Year's Day, [and] after