Featuring another collection of mine......Phra Khun Paen ( phim large chest and black soil material ) - Wat Bankrang, Suphanburi Province.This superb Phra Khun Paen still in perfect condition and with old style of open plastic casing.
No hard feeling.
Khun Paen The Mighty Warrior
Legendary Khun Paen lived between 1491-1529.
He is the legendary Ayuthaya warrior living some 450 years ago. His
name later became the name of a kind of votive tablets found at Wat
Bankrang, Suphanburi Province, about a century ago. Khun Paen was born
in Suphanburi Province (some 70 km. northwest of Bangkok) but grew up
in the close bordered Kanchanaburi Province, where the world wide
well-known "Bridge over River Kwai" situated.
He was a disciple
of Archan Kong, a magic-expert guru monk, for magical studies. By his
skillful fighting, he was appointed by the king to be Khun or a high
ranking military officer. His biography was far more extended and rather a story by poetic authors of the early Rattanakosin period.
Khun Paen's House
Phlai
Kaeo (who later is given the title, Khun Paen), and Nang Phim Philalai
(who later changes her name to Wanthong) are childhood friends in
Suphanburi. Khun Paen is handsome and intelligent, but poor because
the king has executed his father and seized their property. He enters
the monkhood as a novice to get educated, excelling at military skills
and love magic.
He was a disciple of Archan Kong, a magic-expert guru monk, for magical studies. Khun Chang is ugly and stupid, but rich and well-connected at the Ayutthaya court. By
age 15, Phim is the belle of Suphanburi. She meets Phlai Kaeo when
putting food in his alms bowl at Songkran (Thai New Year). Sparks fly.
They have a passionate affair, with him shuttling between the
wat(Buddhist monastery) and her bedroom.
Khun Chang is also smitten by Wanthong. He competes for her using his wealth and status. He
offers to give her mother Phim's weight in gold. After Khun Paen and
Phim are married, Khun Chang maneuvers the king to send Phlai Kaeo on
military service, and then claims he is dead. When Phlai Kaeo returns
victorious, Khun Chang plots to have him banished from Ayutthaya for
negligence on government service.
Phim (now Wanthong) resists
Khun Chang. But when Phlai Kaeo (now Khun Paen) returns from war with
another wife, they have a jealous quarrel. Wanthong goes to live with
Khun Chang, enjoying his devotion and the comforts afforded by his
wealth.
When Khun Paen's second wife, Laothong, is taken into
the palace by the king, Khun Paen regrets abandoning Wanthong. He
breaks into Khun Chang's house at the dead of night and takes Wanthong
away. At first she is reluctant to leave her comfortable
existence, but the passion rekindles, and they flee to an idyllic but
frugal sojourn in the forest.
Khun Chang tells the king that
Khun Paen is mounting a rebellion. The king sends an army which Khun
Paen defeats, killing two of its officers. A warrant is issued for his
arrest. When Wanthong becomes pregnant, Khun Paen decides to leave the
forest and give himself up. At the trial, the charges of rebellion are
disproved, and Khun Chang is heavily fined.
Khun Paen angers
the king by asking for the release of Laothong. He is jailed, and
festers in prison for around twelve years. Khun Chang abducts Wanthong
and they again live together in Suphanburi.
Wanthong gives birth
to Phlai Ngam, her son with Khun Paen. When Phlai Ngam is eight, Khun
Chang tries to kill him. Phlai Ngam escapes to live in Kanchanaburi
with his grandmother who teaches him from Khun Paen's library.
When
the kings of Ayutthaya and Chiang Mai quarrel over a beautiful daughter
of the King of Vientiane, Phlai Ngam volunteers to lead an army to
Chiang Mai, and successfully petitions for Khun Phen's release. They
capture the King of Chiang Mai, and return with the Vientiane princess
and a great haul of booty. Khun Paen now gains status as the governor
of Kanchanaburi . Phlai Ngam is appointed Phra Wai, an officer in the
royal pages.
Khun Chang gets drunk at Phra Wai's wedding, and the old rivalry returns. Phra Wai abducts Wanthong from Khun Chang's house, prompting Khun Chang to petition the king for redress.
At
the subsequent trial, the king demands that Wanthong decide between
Khun Chang and Khun Paen. She cannot, and is dumb-struck. The king
orders her execution. Phra Wai pleads successfully with the king for a
reprieve, but the order arrives fractionally too late to avoid her
execution.
(Source : adapted & adopted from Wikipedia)
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