The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. LXIV, Part 1-2, 1976 - Khamkoo

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and are in mutual disagreement ? 4 Increasing numbers of inscriptions
have been published, but in so far as they have been related to the
chronicular material it has been to force them into the framework of the
latter. s
In addition to the above, any study of northern Thai history must
also give close attention to the taf!!nan siizhanava{ikumara (TS), "The Story
of Prince Sinhanavati (the lion prince)", a chronicle of Chiang Saen, part
of which has been republished as the volume under consideration here
with a commentary and analysis by Manit Vallibhotama, whose interpretation
supplies an interesting contrast to recent results of studies in Thai
linguistics and northern history as well as puts into relief a number of
problems in the use of Soutbe~st Asian source material.
It is for the analysis and interpretation that the present volume is
of greatest interest, since the text itself has been published before in
part 61 of praMum batisavatar/Prachum Phongsawadan (PP), "Collected
Chronicles", which carried the story up to 1728 A.D.6 Manit while
admittedly taking his text from PP part 61, cut it off at the end of the
first part ending just before 638 A.D. (or 1108 A.D. as be interprets the
dates). In neither publication is there any indication of the nature,
location, or date of any manuscript with the exception of a vague
reference by Manit to another text consulted about an obscure point.'
A French translation of TS also appeared among Notton's collection
and is obviously from a different manuscript tradition. 8
It ends with a
4) David K. Wyatt, Editor, The Nan Chronicle, Translated by Prasoet Churatana
Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, Data Paper no. 59. The first
part of the Nan chronicle is called bans'Uvatar l