The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. XLIV, Part 1-2, 1956 - Khamkoo

1'1-tE LOFTY SANCTUARY OF KHAO Pl-lRA Vll-IAR 19
called to his wife for a ku ife hn t hy this time the affect ions of the
lady had been transferred to the bandit chief and the
knife
was placed between the two men with the handle towards the
latter, who seized it and killed the Prince. 'rhe lady of the jar
then became the wife of the bandit, bnt the gods, who were displeased
with such behaviour, turned her into a gibbon who cries continually
on the mountain side to this clay for her fit'St husband.'''
There is ttn nld nmu of the mountain, Kbun Sri Kukhan
Ketr, who lives in a vil1age near Khao Phra Vih~r
and spends
much of his time in a eave less than a kilcnnl'tre from the stair·way
ascent to the monastery. He is a fnnd of lore and has an interpretation
of his own for almost evet·y linte·l sCf.•ne. ThosP who go to
Phra Vihii.r ~honlrl
not fail to seek him out. and if time permits take
the opportunity of 1ecording ~ome of his own and the pt·esent. day
local interpret at jqns of the mountain sanct.uary.
Symbolism of the Architecture.
Professor Cnedes s:d