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 offering unto Phră Măhathen, the Arch-priest, the scholar who studied the Trĭpĭtăkă unto its end, 65 the head of his order, and above every other teacher in this realm. He came here from 66 Sithămmărat. In the midst of that forest-monastery is a temple-building that is 67 large, lofty, and exceeding fair. It has an eighteen-cubit image standing erect. 68 Toward sunrise from this city of Sŭkhothăi there are temples with venerable teachers. 69 There is a great lake; there are groves of areca and betel, there are plantations and fields, there is inhabited country 70 with villages great and small, there are groves of mango and tamarind, as lovely as if made only to be looked at. 71 Towards bed's-foot (north) from this city of Sŭkhothăi there is a [public] market place, 72 there is a Phră ăchănă, there is a royal palace, there are groves of cocoanut and 73 lang, there are plantations and fields, there is inhabited country with villages great and small. Toward 74 bed's head (south) from this city of Sŭkhothăi there are monk's cells, and a temple with venerable teachers 75 dwelling there. There is Sridăphŏngs there are groves of cocoanut and lang, of mango and tamarind; 76 there are upland waters. In yonder mountain is a demon-spirit, Phră Khăphŭng, that 77 is greater than every other spirit in this realm. If any Prince ruling this realm 78 of Sŭkhothăi reverences him well with proper offerings, this realm stands firm, this realm 79 prospers. If the spirit be not reverenced well, if the offerings be not right, the spirit in the mountain does not protect, does not 80 regard;—this realm perishes.

In 1214 of the era, year of the Great Dragon, Prince Khŭn

Ram 81 Khămhæng, lord of this realm of Si Săchănalăi-Sŭkhothăi, [having] planted this grove of palm trees 82 fourteen rice-harvests [before], caused workmen to hew slabs of stone and to set them up in the open space 83 in the center of this palm grove. From the day when the moon was quenched and reappeared, for eight clays, 84 and from the clay when the moon filled out her orb, for eight days [more], a company of venerable teachers, reverend priests, with the Arch-priest, 85 went up and sat above the slabs of stone, intoning the Law unto the laity and to the multitude 86 of people who were observing the precepts. If it were not a clay for reciting the Law, Prince Khŭn Ram Khămhæng, 87 lord of this realm of Si Săchănalăi-Sŭkhothăi, went up