satra
sk (शास्त्र) shāstra, "descriptive and prescriptive affirmation", "study", "science"; kh សាត្រា satra, "scripture", "rule"; pa sattha
satrā, satra: in middle and modern Khmer, scripture, rule, treatises; palm leaf manuscripts.
Siamese States Ceremonies: Their History and Function
by H.G. Quaritch Wales
ENTRY UNDER CONSTRUCTION [EUC]
Type: e-book
Publisher: London, Bernard Quaritch
Edition: digital version Cornell University via Internet Archive
Published: 1931
Author: H.G. Quaritch Wales
Pages: 326
Language : English
ADB Library Catalog ID: eSIAMQW
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CONTENTS
PART I. INTRODUCTORY
I. SCOPE AND SOURCES 3
II. AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF SIAMESE CULTURE 12
III. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE SIAMESE . . 21
PART II. THE CHIEF FACTORS IN SIAMESE STATE
CEREMONIAL
IV. THE KINGSHIP 29
V. THE COURT BRAHMANS .…. 54
PART lit. CEREMONIES OF INSTALLATION
VI. CORONATION : THE MAIN CEREMONIES … 67
VII. CORONATION (continued) : THE REGALIA AND THE
STATE PROGRESSES 92
VIII. CORONATION (continued) : INSTALLATION OF THE
QUEEN AND ASSUMPTION OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCE 116
IX. HIGHER GRADES IN ROYAL CONSECRATION . . 121
X. THE TONSURE CEREMONY 126
XL CREMATION : THE CEREMONIES .…137
XII. CREMATION (continued) : HISTORY AND FUNCTION . 155
XIII. THE WORSHIP OF DEAD KINGS .…169
PART IV. CEREMONIES CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH
KINGSHIP
XIV. ROYAL AUDIENCES, and the Reception of Embassies 177
XV. THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE 193
XVI. THE ROYAL BOUNTY (Tulabhdra and Kathina) . 199
XVII. ROYAL ANNIVERSARIES (Coronation and Birthday) . 213
FART V. CEREMONIES RELATING TO AGRICULTURE
CHAP. PAGB
XVIII. CEREMONIES FOB THE CONTROL OP WIND AND RAIN :
Kite-flying, Baruna-Satra, and the Speeding of the
Outflow 221
XIX. FESTIVALS OF FIRST FRUITS : Dhanya Doha and
Sarada .….… 228
XX. THE SWINGING FESTIVAL, and the Reception of the
Gods 238
XXI. THE FIRST PLOUGHING 256
XXII. TEMPORARY KINGS … 265
PART VI. MISCELLANEOUS STATE CEREMONIES
XXIII. THE WHITE ELEPHANT 273
XXIV. FEASTS OF LAMPS : Con Pariah, Kahtikeya Festival,
and Loy Brah Prahdip 288
XXV. MINOR BRAIIMANICAL CEREMONIES : The Worship of the Sacred Bull, Visnu’s Sleep, Siva’s Night,
Snana, Top-spinning, New Year …295
XXVI. THE PROPITIATION OF SPIRITS : Animism, Guardian Spirits of Cities, Guardian Spirits in Great Guns,
and Foundation Sacrifices 300
XXVII. THE EXPULSION OF EVIL : The General Expulsion
of Evil at New Year, the Public Scapegoat, the
Expulsion of Disease, a Ceremony of Palace
Exorcism, and a Royal Exorcism …308
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
XXVIII. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 315
INDEX 319
About the Author
H.G. Quaritch Wales
Horace Geoffrey “H.G.” Quaritch Wales (17 Oct. 1900, Belsize Grove, England ‑1981) was a British historian and archaelogist who served as an adivser to Kings Rama VI and Rama VII of Siam from 1924 to 1928, devoting his his doctoral thesis to the Siamese State Ceremonies (published in 1931).
According to biographer David Russell Lawrence (1), Quaritch Wales left England for Argentina, and then Southeast Asia, due to the poor state of his marriage with Lena Jones, with whom he had a daughter he never recognized, and who had sought a divorce three years after their marriage. In Bangkok, he studied Thai art and history with French scholars George Coedès and René Nicolas.
From 1934 to 1942, Quaritch Wales undertook archaeological work on early Buddhist sites in Thailand and Malaysia as field-director of the Greater India Research Committee, publishing The Making of Greater India (1951), as well as to a number of scholarly articles and talks. In 1937, he claimed the discovery of the ancient city of Sri Deva (at Muang Si Thep in modern Thailand, Pa Sak River Valley), according to him ”the last hidden ancient city in Southeast Asia’, dating back to the Funan era.
In 1942, Quaritch Wales and his second wife, Dorothy Wales, fled the Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula to the USA, where he became a contributor to The New York Times, moving back to England in 1948.
Later, he turned his attention to Southeast Asian cosmology with The Mountain of God (1953) and The Universe Around Them (1977). In 1981, he published Divination in Thailand, a study of Thai divination manuals.
A grandson of prominent antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch, he took care of the bookselling company from 1950 to 1971, also regularly contributing to The Journal of The Siam Society.
(1) David Russell Lawrence, In Search of Greater India, HG Quaritch Wales: pioneer archaeologist, art historian and war correspondent (ANC Research Report, 2019)
