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 en pierre", (l. 82). So he says here "la pierre qui ici sert de trône est appelée Mananga--Çila mâtra". This stone with its pyramid-top would make a "trône" less comfortable even than some we hear of now-a-days.

Of the places mentioned in this connection none have been identified save ชเลียง, which H.R.H. Prince Damrong tells me is the old name of เมือง ลอง, a town in the neighborhood of Năkhawnsăwăn, situated at what was then the confluence of the two main branches of the Menam.

97. มนัง, 'thought' should rightly appear in the case-form มโน. But the Siamese, with no cases of its own, is not at all particular about the cases of Pali or Sanskrit words, regarding them as variant forms of the same word, among which it is at liberty to choose whichever it likes, without reference to the construction. บาตร์ 'that which receives'—the word which has become specialized to mean the bowl in which the priest receives alms of food.

98. The lack of explicit connection—which has been noted before as a preplexing feature of this writing,—leaves it uncertain whether the statement which begins at the head of this line, is an independent one, or is dependent upon เหน 'see' as its object. If this last were the case, the proper connective would be ว่า 'that'. Indeed, that word may have been there, though now lost in the break at the end of 97. To me there seems little reason for mentioning again the Prince's parentage, and the scope of the allegiance he claimed, unless it were to state the purpose for which the inscription was set up. I have therefore supplied 'that' in the translation, and perhaps should have supplied its equivalent in the transliteration also. 99. กาว (แกว) and ลาว are well known names of northern peoples. มา I have not been able to identify. The river U is the great affluent from the north which falls into the Khong above Luang Phrăbang. P translates here: "Tant ceux qui habitent les rives des cours d'eau, que ceux qui habitent la brousse."

100. มา ออก is a very unusual phrase in such connection. B connects it with the preceding words, and translates: "were called out". S, assuming the same