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father went to fight Khun Sain Chou by the right.
Khun Sam Chon pressed on to meet him by the left.
Khun Sam Chon charged in force, My father's
people fled in haste, broken and scattered. I fled cot.
I bestrode the elephant Neka Phon (Host of Warriors).
I urged him into the melee in front of my father. I
engaged Khun Sam Chon in elephant-duel. I myself
thrust Khnn Sam Chon's elephant—the one called
Mat Miiang (kingdom's Treasure) so that he was
worsted, Khnn Sam Chon was vanquished, fled."1

Thus the youngest prince defeated the enemy
Khtin Sara Chon. The prince was duly honoured for
this act of bravery. He says: 6 My father, therefore,
raised my name to the title Phra Ram Khamhaeng, be-
cause I thrust Khun Sam Chon's elephant/

The young prince served his father faithfully in
his lifetime. He says in his inscription: ' During my
father's time I was support and stay unto my father;
I was support and stay unto my mother. If I got the
body of a deer or the body of a fish, I brought it to
my father. If I got any fruit, tart or sweet, that I ate
and relished, ate and found good, I brought it to my
father. If I went to hunt elephants, and got them, I
brought them to my father. If I went to hamlets or
towns, and got elephants, got elephant's trunks, got
slaves, got damsels, got silver, got gold, I brought and
left them with my father."2

1. Journal of Siam Society, VIa I, (1909) p. 25.
1. Ibid., p. 25.