The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. XXXII, 1940 - Khamkoo

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12 DR. JOAQUIM DE CAMPOS [VOL. XXXII u.s tributu.ry Stu.tes in the Palace Law or Kat Monthienban of King 'l'railok. 21 Banos describes the religious beliefs of the 'l'lmi and, though he does not mention the Buddhist religion, he gives interesting details regarding the temples and the ritual followed in 'l.'lmiland. Some temples >vere built o£ stone and others of brick, in which were kept many images of: men tlmt are now in heaven owing to their good deeds. 'l'here is one enormous irnn,ge made or earth which is about fifty paces long. The gt·eatest metal imn.ge in Siam and regarded as the most ttncicnt was in a 'l'emplc at Snldwthai. It. was eighty p1dmos or about sixty feet. 22 Every king, when be 11scended the throne, began building 11 new temple and endowed it with l11ncls u.nd income. The temples had high towers the uppet· hn.lf of which were gilded with gold leaf fixed on bitumen and the lower lmH decomted with different colours. On the top or the towers they placd a sort of umbrellu. and around it very light bells ·which rttng when swayed by the breeze. 'fhe priests, clad in yellow~ robes, going about shoe less n.nd with shaven heads and large fans in their lw.nclK, were held in high respect. In their apartments no women could enter, nor even female cretttures like hens. 'fhere were mn.ny fasts during the yon.r and the feasts were held at the beginning of the new moon or at full moon. The priests not only preached religion but studied the heavens and the movements of 21 \V hen the Portngnese took ]\blRccn, Sbm consiuered it rts n. b·ibntrtry ~>tate, thougl1 it lmd no control ovel' it anrl did not r·eceive rmy ta·ilmte. On the other· hand Ohin:t cousidered Siam as fl. tl'ibnhtl'Y stl\te though it wielded no authority whfttsoevel'. Such fncts have to be trdcen into account when reconstructing kingdoms desm•ibcd by Ohine~e tm,vellel's like Y -t~ing n.ml Cbn.u J"nknn., such as SJ"ivijr.bVl6 and other kingdoms, which chimed so ma.ny t.1·ibnt!wy stn.tes even on stone inscl'iptions, when rmlly most of these cln.irm: were imaginary or 11t 11ny rate continued to be made to feed the vtLnity of kings long n.fter such claims had ce11sed to lmve any men.ning. 22 According to Thiao J.hanr1 Ph?'Cb R1wng of the late King Vn.jirfLvndh, the tr~llest imn.ge found in old Sukhoth:ti is t;he one c:tllecl Phra Attcwos, It st>tnding Bncldhn., on tlw top of Khao Wat Sn.pnn Hin, or· the mountttin of the temple with the stone 1n•idge. 'rhe height of this itn!Lge i~ Hix wcbh or twelve metres antl is proh:thly the one referred to by Bn.rros. The height of sixty feet mentioned by him is either an exrtggemtecl eRtimftte or perhaps included the length of tlw pedest:tl. The highest ilnfl.ge 11t Aynthin. cnsi; on the order·s of King Rn.ma Tibodi in nbont 1500, and erected in \Vat Srisanphet, was forty eight feet high, n.ncl t.he pedestn.l WitS twenty-four feet. This w:ts destroyed by the Burmese in 1767. In case a highe1• imn.ge t;hn.n Phra Attcwos existed fLt Sukhothai, it might lw.ve l)een destroyed wher1 the Blll'mese King Bureng Naung captured Sukhothai in 1563.
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