[Footnote 206: See the texts in _B.E.F.E.O. l.c._ The Bodhisattvas are described as Ariyametteyâdînam dasannam Bodhisattânam. The vow to become a Buddha should it seems be placed in the mouth of the King, not of the Metropolitan as in Schmitt's translation.]
[Footnote 207: See Fournereau, pp. 209 ff. Dharmâsokarâja may perhaps be the same as Mahâdharmarâja who reigned 1388-1415. But the word may also be a mere title applied to all kings of this dynasty, so that this may be another inscription of Śrî Sûryavaṃsa Râma.]
[Footnote 208: 1350 is the accepted date but M. Aymonier, _J.A._ 1903, pp. 185 ff. argues in favour of about 1460. See Fournereau, _Ancien Siam_, p. 242, inscription of 1426 A.D. and p. 186, inscription of 1510 described as Groupe de Sajjanalaya et Sukhodaya.]
[Footnote 209: Fournereau, vol. I. pp. 186 ff.]
[Footnote 210: O. Frankfürter, "King Mongkut," _Journal of Siam Society_, vol. I. 1904.]
[Footnote 211: But it was his son who first decreed in 1868 that no Siamese could be born a slave. Slavery for debt, though illegal, is said not to be practically extinct.]
[Footnote 213: The word has been derived from Vâta, a grove, but may it not be the Pali Vatthu, Sanskrit Vâstu, a site or building?]
[Footnote 215: These finials are very common on the roof ends of Siamese temples and palaces. It is strange that they also are found in conjunction with multiple roofs in Norwegian Churches of eleventh century. See de Beylié, _Architecture hindoue dans l'extrême Orient_, pp. 47, 48.]
[Footnote 216: The Buddha is generally known as Phra: Khodom ( = Gotama).]
[Footnote 217: In an old Siamese bronze from Kampeng Pet, figured in Grünwedel's _Buddhist Art in India_, p. 179, fig. 127, the Sirô rồt seems to be in process of evolution.]
[Footnote 218: P.A. Thompson, _Lotus Land_, 1906, p. 100.]
[Footnote 219: Four images facing the four quarters are considered in Burma to represent the last four Buddhas and among the Jains some of the Tirthankaras are so represented, the legend being that whenever they preached they seemed to face their hearers on every side.]
[Footnote 220: These figures only take account of twelve out of the seventeen provinces.]
[Footnote 221: Thompson, _Lotus Land_, p. 120.]