Paramanuchit

Siamese religious leader and author
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Also known as: Paramanujita Jinorasa
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Also called:
Paramanujita Jinorasa
Born:
1791
Died:
Dec. 9, 1852 (aged 61)
Notable Works:
“Taleng Phai”

Paramanuchit (born 1791—died Dec. 9, 1852) was a prince-patriarch of the Siamese Buddhist church who was a prolific writer on patriotic and moralistic themes in verse and prose. He became abbot of Watphra Jetubon and was later created krom somdec-phra Paramanujit, prince-patriarch of the church. Paramanuchit’s masterpiece is the Taleng Phai (“The Defeat of the Mons”), the heroic epic of the struggle of King Naresvara of Ayutthaya to liberate his country from Myanmar (Burmese) rule and of his famous single combat with the crown prince of Myanmar in 1590. His concluding section of the Samuddhaghosa, a folktale adapted from a ...(100 of 159 words)