A Secret History of the Bangkok Hilton
“At that time, King Ramkhamhaeng the Great, the third monarch of the first kingdom, who is credited as the inventor of the Thai language, allowed his subjects to ring a bell placed at the front of his palace if they wished to have an audience. He would then listen to their complaints and settle disputes between his subjects in person. This shows how close the benevolent king was to his subjects.
To avoid the threat of an epidemic, King U Thong, the founding king of Thailand’s second kingdom,... moved his court to establish a new capital named Ayutthaya in 1350. He succeeded in peacefully taking Sukhothai as a part of his kingdom as a tributary state and declared Theravada Buddhism as the national religion. King U Thong introduced a law based on the Hindu code of conduct called Dharmashastra to govern his kingdom.
Subsequent kings of Ayutthaya supplemented the Thai legal system by introducing other laws to cover a wide range of human activities as the society became more complex throughout more than 400 years of the kingdom.MoreLess
To avoid the threat of an epidemic, King U Thong, the founding king of Thailand’s second kingdom,... moved his court to establish a new capital named Ayutthaya in 1350. He succeeded in peacefully taking Sukhothai as a part of his kingdom as a tributary state and declared Theravada Buddhism as the national religion. King U Thong introduced a law based on the Hindu code of conduct called Dharmashastra to govern his kingdom.
Subsequent kings of Ayutthaya supplemented the Thai legal system by introducing other laws to cover a wide range of human activities as the society became more complex throughout more than 400 years of the kingdom.MoreLess
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