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

338 RICVIEW ARTICLE
Later bra~y'a hlum fa kau biman of mo'aiz videharaj (India and
China) and his brother bra~ya cu(af!'i also started to attack to obtain the
girls, but when they beard of Cu'o'il.'s victories they gave up the attempt,
From that time on he received tribute (,~ff'l!J) from all the ho and kaev
in the east and north as well as from Kosambi, Kalingaraj, Hail.savati and
Ayodhaya.
After more than fifty years of rule Cu'o'n died in an elephant duel
with the ruler of an unidentified kingdom, maen ta tuk khuk fa (a yii'n,
"far to the east", and his kingdom was divided among his five sons in
the year 554 (A.D. 1192).35
No more events are mentioned for three generations until the reign
of Cu'o'd's great-grandson tav meiz, in the line ruling in Chiang Saen,
who was to be the father of King Mangrai.
Immediately the story is
again filled with folklore,' omens and predictions of which one example
should be noted.
This concerns the choice of name for lav men's son,
based on a combination of the names of the two parents and a hermit
who was predicting the child's future greatness. According to the story,
Mangrai's name was formed in the following way: The father's name,
(lav) men and the hermit's, padamahkar, supplied the first syllable, mah,
and then they "took the name of the mother, deb gal]l khay, daughter of
35) PP 61, p. 121. The names I have identified in parentheses are those which
are known for certain to have been in use at one time or another for the areas
concerned. The others have been localized by various writers, but it is not
clear to me whether such identifications were based on mere guesswork or
more solid evidence. In Notton, for example, Alavi is Chiang Rung (I, 156),
Culani is a part of Tongking (I, 1, 3,). Sai1kata is not mentioned by Notton
and I am suggesting that it derives from Saketa, one of the cities of classical
Buddhist India (see Hermann Olden berg, Buddha, Goldmanns Gelbe Taschenbucher,
pp. 96, 369). Since this name cannot be attached to any local place,
it is evidence that the whole group of Indian names in TS was taken from
Buddhist literature. maen ta tok, etc. is not clearly identified, and in one story
''Phraya Maen Ta Tok" is a person while "Khok Fa Phi Ta Yuen" is a country
with which he is at war (Notton I, 18 ff., III, 18, 28). Videha was known to
the Shans, at least, as a name for China (Sai Saimong Mangrai, The Shan States
and the British Occupation, Southeast Asia Pro~ram, Cornell University, Datil
Paper no. 57, P· IV, n. 2).