Bo Kluea

Who holds it

Title

The families who work the wells

Since

not known

Born

not known

Family

See the lord record.

Confidence

low

What the town holds

• The wells at Bo Luang and Bo Mang
• The boiling pans and the fuel woods
• The salt roads out

Allies and rivals

The Kha (Lua and Htin) villages of the hills; the Nan chiefs.

How things stand that morning

Active, we may assume.

Wealth

Salt.

Threats

• A chief or muang taking the wells

Communities

Kha (Lua, Htin) and Tai.

Trade and crafts

Salt boiled down in pans.

Where the sources disagree

• Board (bo-kluea-salt): "the workings are old". Dated use is of the fourteenth century.

Evidence: The wells are real; dated use is later.

On the map: A point; the district polygon is in the lord record.

Primary sources for Yom and Nan

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma, The Royal Historical Commission of King Bagyidaw (Monywe Sayadaw and others), drawing on U Kala's Maha Yazawin (about 1724) and earlier chronicles (1829 to 1832). The standard Burmese court chronicle, compiled six centuries after 1200 from older chronicles now lost. Read online
• The later Tai, Lao and Mon chronicles of the north, Ratanapanna (Jinakalamali); Bodhiramsi (Chamadevivamsa); anonymous monks and court scribes (the Chamadevivamsa about 1410; the Jinakalamali 1516 to 1528; the Chiang Mai Chronicle in its surviving form 1827; the Nithan Khun Borom 16th to 17th century). There is no text of 1200 for the Mon kingdom of Haripunjaya, the Tai muang of Ngoenyang (Chiang Saen), Chiang Rung, the Yom and Nan valleys, or the Lao middle Mekong.
• The Inscriptions of Cambodia, Various (the Khmer kings and their officers), edited by George Coedes (inscriptions of the 6th to 14th centuries; edited 1937 to 1966). The Khmer empire of 1200 is known almost entirely from the great foundation stelae of Jayavarman VII (reigning from 1181), which Coedes edited: the Ta Prohm stele of 1186 (K. Read online
• The Customs of Cambodia, Zhou Daguan (after 1297, from a stay at Angkor in 1296 to 1297). A Chinese envoy's account of Angkor a century after Jayavarman VII, and the only description of the city and its court by an eyewitness. Read online