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. What exists is later chronicle tradition. The Chamadevivamsa and Jinakalamali give the Haripunjaya king list and the wars with Lavo and the Khmer in the 11th and 12th centuries, naming the kings before the Tai conquest of 1292; the Chiang Mai Chronicle and the Chiang Saen tradition give the Lao (Lavachakkaraja) line of Ngoenyang, the ancestors of Mangrai (born 1239), which places his grandfather and father around 1200; the Nithan Khun Borom gives the Lao origin legend and the first muang. These lists are genealogy and myth, not record, and the names for 1200 are unverifiable. The Khmer inscriptions and the Pagan records are the only contemporary texts that touch these lands.
About this source
- Title
- Jinakalamali, Chamadevivamsa, Mulasasana, the Chiang Mai Chronicle and the Nithan Khun Borom
- Author
- Ratanapanna (Jinakalamali); Bodhiramsi (Chamadevivamsa); anonymous monks and court scribes
- Author's dates
- Ratanapanna active 1516 to 1528; Bodhiramsi active about 1410
- Written
- 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
- Language
- Pali (Jinakalamali, Chamadevivamsa) and Tai Yuan and Lao (the rest)
- Covers
- legendary times to the 16th century (Jinakalamali) or 1827 (Chiang Mai Chronicle)
- Kind
- Chronicle
None of these is freely online in a verified copy. The Jinakalamali's Pali text was edited by A. P. Buddhadatta (PTS, 1962). The Sipsong Panna chronicle for Chiang Rung exists only in modern Thai and Chinese translations.
Where to read it
Editions
- N. A. Jayawickrama (tr.), The Sheaf of Garlands of the Epochs of the Conqueror (Jinakalamali), Pali Text Society (1968), English; in copyright (not freely online)
- G. Coedes, Documents sur l'histoire politique et religieuse du Laos occidental, BEFEO 25 (1925), French translation of the Jinakalamali's historical parts; on Persee, link not verified in this task (not freely online)
- D. Swearer and S. Premchit, The Legend of Queen Cama: Bodhiramsi's Camadevivamsa (Albany, 1998), English; in copyright (not freely online)
- D. Wyatt and Aroonrut Wichienkeeo, The Chiang Mai Chronicle (Chiang Mai, 1995), English; in copyright (not freely online)