The Yuan Phai are the people of Lanna or Yonok, then an independent kingdom in the upper reaches of the Chao Phraya River basin with a capital at Chiang Mai.
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12 Facts About Yuan Phai
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Yuan Phai is the only source of information that he was born in the year that his father, Borommaracha II or Sam Phraya, led an army to Angkor, which was 1431.
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Yuan Phai gave the site of the old Ayutthaya palace to become Wat Phra Si Sanphet and built a new palace to the north.
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Yuan Phai composed or commissioned the Mahachat Khamluang, another early classic based on the Jataka story of Phra Vessantara.
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Yuan Phai became king in 1443 by deposing his father, and within a year had imposed control over Nan and Phrae.
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Yuan Phai attacked Luang Prabang, Chiang Rung, and the Shan region several times but could not impose control.
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Yuan Phai had his favorite son, Bunruang, executed on suspicion of disloyalty.
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Yuan Phai is possibly the only Thai historical figure named after a character in the Mahabharata.
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Yuan Phai was rewarded with the governorship of Phayao, and then of Ngao and Phrae in 1459.
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Opening stanzas of Yuan Phai are an early and important source for one of the main theories of kingship in Ayutthaya.
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Yuan Phai is the only martial poem to have survived from the Ayutthaya era.
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Chanthit Krasaesin and Chonlada Rueangraklikhit prefer Yuan Phai Khlong Dan where dan is a subcategory of the khlong verse form.
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