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 On Wednesday, the second waxing-moon day of the second month, at the time of two nalika and nine bat after the midnight, [the King's Highness] proceeded in formation to set [His] hosts in Sam Khanon District. In that event, the foes from Hongsa were routed in defeat and fled away. In addition, a mare dropped a foal with a single head but two bodies having four feet each, which seemed as if disputing with each other over the head.

In the year 947, the Year of the Rooster (2128 BE), the divine lord of Sawathi marched his men south for another time. He positioned his hosts in Sa Ket District and remained there from the second month till the fourth month. Once it reached Wednesday, the seventh waxing-moon day of the fifth month, the time of four nalika and one bat after the dayspring, [the King's Highness] proceeded in formation to muster [His] hosts of triumph in Lomphli District, and on Saturday, the tenth waxing-moon day of the fifth month, [as He was] proceeding from [the site of] the hosts of triumph by way of river through Pa Mok, a multitude of grey pelicans flew in from both the left and the right leading [His] royal barge towards. Once it reached Thursday, the fourteenth waning-moon day of the fifth month, [the King's Highness], mounted upon the royal elephant Phlai Mongkhon Thawip, went out to line all the elephants and horses up on the brink of the river, and the sun had a halo and the rays of that halo shone down upon the royal elephant as if offering a shade to shelter it. On that occasion, [the King's Highness] charged the hosts of the divine lord of Sawathi that had been positioned in Sa Ket District, routing them in defeat. In the same year, the High Viceroy marched his men in by way of Kamphaeng Phet, where they stayed and started rice farming.

In the year 948, the Year of the Dog (2129 BE),