The king was said to have a heart as vast as the
ocean and extreme compassion for the Saii'as (beings).
He used to preach the law to those of his subjects,
who were pious ard willing to listen him.
We know this from a panegeryic inscription of
this king, which has come down to us. It is in
Khmere script. It was discovered by the king Maha
Mocgkut in 1834 in Vat Jai of Sukhodaya. In 1884,
it was brought to public notice and printed in Excur-
sions et Reconnaissances by M. Pa vie. It was not
until M. Aymonier canie to the field that it could be
found out that the inscription was in the Khemer
language and not in Siamese.1 M. Fournereau also
gave a translation and transcription of this inscription
in his Le Siam Ancien* In 1917 M. G. Coedes,
Professor a 1'ecole francaise d'extreme-orient, treated
of this Khemer inscription in his paper on Documents
stir la Dynastie de Sukhodaya?
We learn from this inscription that in 1269 Saka,
his father the king Bra: pad kamraten an hrdaya-jaya-
jeta fell ill. The king's son Bra: pad kamraten an
Dharmaraja gathered an army at Sajjanalaya, where
he was at that time. On the fifth day of the eighth
month, the prince marched towards Sukhodaya. He
attacked the revolted chiefs from all the sides at one
1. L'epigraphie Kambodjienne, VIII, p. 253.
2. Vol. I, pp. 167-179.
3. B. E. F. E-0, XVII, No. 2,1917.