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  Sala Taeng Ngae

 

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Sala Taeng Ngae, a pavilion at the foot of Bandai It Mountain in Phetchaburi. It was built as a replacement for the original sala that stood here since the Ayutthaya period, but which had deteriorated and ceased to exist for nearly over a hundred years.

 

In the it past, the original edifice had been visited by King Rama V (fig.), as well as Sunthorn Phu, Thailand's most celebrated poet (fig.), who mentions this pavilion in his work Khun Chang Khun Paen (fig.) as the location where Khun Paen went to buy an untamed white horse (fig.).

 

  Sala Taeng Ngae

 

Hence the pavilion was rebuilt in honour of this poet and for the occasion of King Rama IX's (fig.) 60th Birthday Anniversary, who oversaw the ceremony in which the main pillar was erected, on 9 August 1987, during the inauguration of the adjacent Mon Thep Nimit Buddha Pond (fig.).

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