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8o            A DISTORT OF SIAM
                          had three      named            to the
           King Int'araja           sons,       according
         numerical                  referred to. We          call
                    system already                    might
         them Princes  Primus,  Secundus and Tertius. On their
         father's  death,  in  1424,  the two elder sons  proceeded  to
              for the throne.       and their adherents met on a
         fight                They
               in the    of                            mounted
         bridge      city  Ayut'ia,  and the two Princes,
         on  elephants, engaged  in  personal  combat.  The result
         was  that  both  of them    were  thrown   from   their

         elephants  and killed.  The  youngest  brother was then
         proclaimed King  without  opposition,  under the title of
         Boromoraja  II  (1424).
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