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

changes in political or cultural orientation.
are four different types of titles.
HEV!EW AHTICLE 373
In the above list there
First there are three titles beginning
with braiia, found in both Thai and Mon inscriptions, and possibly
of Mon origin, I or but whereas in the second and third brana is followed
by what appear to be Thai proper names, in the first the seconde lement
is mahhray which, as I noted above, furnished the occasion for a complicated
folk etymology.1o2
In fact, even casual perusal of published
material on Burmese royalty will show that it was a common Burmese
royal and official title based on the Burmese word for "king", mari.I 03
Why the founder of Lanna royalty bad a Burmese title is a problem
for which no explanation is readily apparent, but it deserves study,
and an adequate treatment would probably modify much of the accepted
story of his reign.
The title of the fourth ruler makes a complete
break with its predecessors in being entirely Thai with no hint of Mon
or Burmese influence.
Thus if our only document on early Lanna were the inscription
we might conclude that the ruler really responsible for making it a Thai
kingdom was Soi1 Saen Na rather than Mangrai.
Another interesting aspect of the inscription is the prominence
it gives to Lamphun, rather than Chiang Mai, as the most important city
of the region, whereas in the chronicles Chiang Mai by this time do to
bad been the capital for six generations.
It will not gloss over the fact
by calling Lamphun "the cultural capital".J04 In the inscription Chiang
101) Vickery, Review of Robert B. Jones, "Thai Titles and Ranks, etc.", JSS 62
(1), January 1974, pp. 160-174. Seepp.170-171.
102) See above, pp. 338-39.
103) Than Tun, "History of Burma: A.D. 1300-1400", .Journal of the Burma
Research Society 42 (1959). pp. 119-133, see table at end; Yi Yi. "Life at the
Burmese Court Under the Konbaung Kings'', JBRS 44 (1), 1961, pp. 85-129;
Tin HI a Thaw, "History of Burma : A.D. 1400-1500", JBRS 42 (19 59), pp.
135-150, see p. 148; Yi Yi, "The Thrones of the Burmese Kings", JBRS 43
(2), 1960, pp. 97-123, seep. 101. '
104) EHS 13, p. 124.