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CHAPTER VII

REIGNS OF KING KING RAMA T IBODI
BOROMORAJA III, II,
KING BOROMORAJA IV, KING RATSADA AND KING P*RAJAI
KING TRAILOK was succeeded by his elder son, who is
known as King Boromoraja III. He was already Regent
of and on his accession P'itsanulok ceased
Ayut'ia,
to be the Prince the Maha
capital. Jett'a, Uparat,
remained at P'itsanulok as Viceroy or Governor.
King Boromoraja died in 1491, at the age of about 45,
and was succeeded by his brother, Prince Jett'a, who
assumed the of Rama T'ibodi II. He was
style King
descended, through his mother, from the Royal Family
of Suk'ot'ai.
This King was born in 1472, and was therefore only
nineteen of when he ascended the throne.
years age
His first act was to cremate the remains of his father and
elder brother and to erect for the of
pagodas reception
their ashes. These still be seen in Wat
pagodas may
at
Srisarap'et Ayut'ia.
In 1492 trouble again arose with Chiengmai. A
Siamese Prince, named Suriwong, went to Chiengmai
and became a there. He to obtain
priest managed
of a sacred of made of
possession very image Buddha,
white This was an which had been
crystal. image
taken from Lamp'un by King Mengrai in 1281. Legend
asserted that it had belonged to Cham T'ewi, a mythical
Queen of Lamp'un, supposed to have lived in the
seventh A.D. Prince this
century Suriwong smuggled
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