Sakdiphonlasep
| Maha Sakdi Polsep | |
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| Front Palace | |
| Vice King of Siam | |
| Tenure | 21 July 1824 – 1 May 1832 |
| Appointed | Jessadabodindra (Rama III) |
| Predecessor | Maha Senanurak |
| Successor | Pinklao |
| Born | 21 October 1773 Kingdom of Ayutthaya |
| Died | 1 May 1832 (aged 46) Bangkok, Kingdom of Siam |
| Spouse | Princess Daravadi |
| Issue | 20 sons and daughters with various consorts |
| House | Chakri Dynasty |
| Father | King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) |
| Mother | Princess Nui Yai |
Somdet Phra Bawornrajchao Maha Sakdi Polsep (Template:Lang-th; October 21, 1785 – May 1, 1832) was the Front Palace appointed by Jessadabodindra as the titular heir to the throne as he was the uncle to the king.
Prince Arunotai was the son of King Buddha Loetla Nabhalai and his concubine Nuiyai. He was later appointed the Kromma Muen Sakdi Polsep and became acquitted with his half-newphew Kromma Muen Jessadabodin during the wars with Burma. Kromma Muen Jessadabodin was crowned as King Rama III in 1824 and, consequently, Sakdi Polsep was made the Front Palace. He led the Siamese armies into Isan to fight with King Anouvong of Vientiene in 1825.
Maha Sakdi Polsep ordered the construction of the Baworn Niwet Temple (lit. temple where the Front Palace lived) - the seat of the Sangharaja today and where Prince Mongkut (future Rama IV) became an abbot. In 1829, he ordered the Buddha Chinnasri - a 900-year old Sukhothai Buddha statue from Pitsanulok - to be floated along the river and placed at the Baworn Niwet Temple.
His funeral procession was held 2 April 1833, with cremation set for seven days later. The king, through the praklang, invited diplomatist Edmund Roberts and party to witness the procession, which Roberts describes in journal. Roberts notes that one of the sons of the wang-na watches at the temple, near the funeral pile, night and day, till the body is consumed; the ashes of the consumed body are then thrown into the river with many ceremonies; and the unconsumed bones are then delivered to the priests, and made into household gods [sic].[1] (Roberts refers to Buddhist monks as "Talapoy," from Portuguese talapão from Burmese tala poi our lord.)
References
- ^ Roberts, Edmund (Digitized October 12, 2007) [First published in 1837]. "Chapter XIX—Procession to the funeral pile of Vang-Na or Second King.". Embassy to the Eastern courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat : in the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock ... during the years 1832-3-4. Harper & brothers. pp. 289–70. OCLC 12212199. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
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