The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. XXIX, Part 1-2, 1936 - Khamkoo

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24 P'RAYA NA.K'ON P'RAH RAM (VOL. XXIX
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of Nong Se but no date is given. The History of Burma (P'ongs.
Yono.IC, p. 38) mentions that the Kingdom of Tagaung was conquered
by Khun Lu in B. E. 1111, during the reign of Thado Thammaraja,
a Meng ("i.e. Mon) king of the Tasaraj dynasty. As the year B. E.
1111 synchronises with the dates given in the Mo and C'ieng Sen
chronicles as to the date of the foundation of Yonok Nak'ftnak'on or
C'ieng Sen, so it is !lrobably more accurate than the date given in
the Hsenwi chronicle. During this period, commencing about the
8th. century, the Khmers were beginning to become a power and
were extending the frontiers of their st.ate, and had already brought
under their subjection the kingdom of K'otrabun or Nak'on P'anom.
The political condition of the time would seem to render it impossible
for the Tai settlers to establish themselves and found cities, and
therefore it may be assumed that the Tai had established themselves
prior to the ascendancy of the Khmers. Thus, to sum up, the
date of the foundation of C'alieng agrees with the Chinese records
and was certainly before the Khmers becoming a power. Further
support for this view lies in this fact that Haripniijaya (La1p.p'un),
which was founded in B. E. 1200, had walls constructed on a plan
similar to that used by the architects of C'alieng ( P'ongs. Yonolc, p.
57). Fournereau, in Le Siam Ancien (p. 52, on map xx), marks the
frontiers of the Tai :itate as contiguous to Sukhot'ai then under
Khmer authority. The people of the country were early 'l'ai
settler