George Cœdès

Name: The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty
Author: George Cœdès

The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

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“The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty”, published in 1921, is a work by George Cœdès. It explores elements such as Phō Khun Phā, Sukhodaya and Phō Khun Bāng Klāng Thāo.

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George Cœdès, The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

“ With the name of this King there comes an end to the information which is to be extracted from our inscription relative to the Sukhodaya dynasty. In spite of its bad state of preservation, this text has furnished us with a good number of new data based upon readings which are beyond the reach of discussion. The Sukhodaya dynasty emerges gradually from the mystery which has enveloped its origins. Its liberation from the suzerainty of Cambodia, the memory of which had been preserved hitherto only in legend, finds for the first time an echo in epigraphy. ”

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George Cœdès, The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

“ Phō Khun Phā Mu'ang had received some kind of investiture at the hands of the quasi-divine personage who was then the sovereign of the Khmer kingdom; he must therefore have found himself in the position of a vassal of the latter. But after his victory over the bold Khōm and his entry into Sukhodaya, he doubtless thought himself to be a sufficiently important person to play the suzerain in his turn, to confer the abhisheka on his ally Phō Khun Bāng Klāng Thāo, and to award to him the very same titles which he had received from his old master. ”

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George Cœdès, The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

“ But since I hope to publish this inscription in its entirety in the "Corpus of Thai inscriptions" upon which I am working at the present moment, I shall here only study its opening passages, these latter being particularly important for the history of the Sukhodaya dynasty. The state in which the text has come down to us confirms, unfortunately, the rule which weighs like a curse upon epigraphic studies and which ordains that, in a partly ruined inscription, the most important passages (dates, historical facts, etc.) are precisely those which are the least well preserved. ”

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George Cœdès, The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

“ His epithet of "god" needs not surprise us, for it is known that the kings of ancient Cambodia attached the word "deva" to their name during their own lifetime. In saying that the King of Cambodia conferred on Phō Khun Phā Mu'ang a title similar (or equal) to his own, the text of the inscription is not exaggerating greatly, for the dignity of Kamratēng Añ was a very high one: the title was borne by the King himself, generally preceded by the words "braḥ pāda" to which the sovereign alone had a right. ”

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George Cœdès, The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

“ The dropping of the "ya" is easily explained: in the Khmer script a parasitic "y" is frequently added after the vowel "i" and the diphtongs "ai" or "ei", the word Śrīyaśodharapura thus becoming without difficulty Śriy-Śodharapura, Śri Śodharapura. The presence of this latter form in the inscription from Sukhodaya tends to prove that this alteration is an old one.
Even if this explanation of the name Śrī Sodharapura be not accepted, it is none the less certain that the term denotes exclusively Cambodia. The Chao Mu'ang of Śrī Sodharapura is thus none other than the King of Cambodia. ”

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George Cœdès, The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

“ The Kings of Sukhodaya very fortunately do not aim at imperatoria brevitas: they take pleasure in talking about themselves, they are prolix in their own praise, but instead of drowning themselves, like the kings of Cambodia, in a flood of monotonous and common-place rhetoric, they are fond of real and precise details. ”

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George Cœdès, The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

“ This work originated in Thailand and is in the public domain according to sections 19 and 20 of Thailand's Copyright Act, 2537 BE (1994) (Translation) , because:
the author (or the last co-author) was a natural person and died at least 50 years ago, or the author is/was a juristic person or the author is not known, and at least 50 years have passed since the creation of the work, or if the work was published during such period of 50 years, at least 50 years have passed since the first publication of the work. ”

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George Cœdès, The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty (1921)

“ June 1920) , is the work of Mr. J. Crosby, to whom the author begs to tend his heartiest thanks. ↑ Mission Pavie, Etudes diverses, tome II. — Fournereau, Le Siam ancien. — Bradley, THe oldest known writing in Siamese (Journal Siam Society, VI, i, 1909) . — Cœdès, Documents sur la dynastie de Sukhodaya (B. E. F. E. O., XVIII, ii) . ↑ The history of Siam, Bangkok, 1914, vol. I, Introd. (in Siamese) . ↑ Loc. cit. ↑ B. E. F. E. O., IV, p. 240. The same texts have been communicated by Phra Chen Chin Aksor (Sutchai) to H.R.H. Prince Damrong, who has made use of them (loc. cit.) ”

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