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SculptureThe Buddha image with dropping legs
This Buddha image has undergone a big restoration. The image wears sliding monastic robe. The robe is thin and has no wrinkles. The right hand depicts the attitude of giving sermon and the left hand is placed on the lap. There is a lotus supporting the feet. It has square face, prominent and connected eyebrows, low-looking and protruding eyes, large nose, big mouth, spiral hair buds, protruding “Usanesa” and a glass bead-like halo.
SculptureThe Buddha Image on Vanaspati
The Lord Buddha stands on a vehicle and surrounded by two people, one on each side. Both hands depict the giving sermon attitude and there is a hole on the leg. The vehicle is a large half-body human with wings. The vehicle wears a tube-shaped crown and holds lotus in each side of the hands. Some scholars called this type of vehicle Phra Arunathip or the sun. Above each lotus is a standing human. Despite being damaged, it can still be seen that one human holds a whip. It is therefore assumed that these people are Indra and Brahman.
SculptureConnecting block
The connecting block is utterly ruined. Made of stone, the connecting block is a square hunk of stone with a through hole in the middle and serves to connect the Dharmacakra to the pillar. The four sides of the block depict the First Sermon and are in s state of disrepair. Only one side gives details adequate for studying. The Buddha is seated in the European style on the throne, his right hand is showing preaching gesture, and his left hand is placed on the lap. Five Brahmins sitting below on the left hand side of the Buddha might possibly represent the Five Disciples before Buddhist ordination; while, on the right side, five Buddhist monks are sitting there, convincingly considered as the Five Disciples after entering monkhood. The figures right behind the Five Disciples on both sides could be deities and the Brahma devas.
SculptureDharmachakra
The Dharmacakra includes 3 main parts, namely a hub above which there is a through hole; spokes the spaces between which weren’t cut through and make the wheel look thick; and a felloe ornamented with a Kankhot or alternating lozenge motif. The lower part of the Wheel depicts an individual sitting cross-legged with a lotus in each hand which may represent Surya.
SculpturePhra Si Sakaya Dasabalayan Prathan Phutthamonthon Sudassana
It is a walking Buddha image on lotus base. The left hand is performing Vitarka Mudra. The face is oval-shaped rather round, like a real person. The hair is coiled into small spirals. There is the ushnisha under the flame halo. The ears are long. The image is wearing the robe across a shoulder with outer robe on the shoulder and the robe is wavy folded naturally. The edge of the robe is realistically attached to the rear throne.
ArchitecturePhra Pratonchedi
Phra Pratonchedi is a brick-and-stucco stupa, whose platform should be built in Dvaravati period. The lower-tiered platform is in square plan and has staircases in four directions. The middle-tiered platform is in edge-and-side-increased square plan, which has pilasters at intervals and a wire called “Buavalai”. The upper platform might be a chamber or an anda, which had niches attached around the stupa. A prang-typed stupa, which might be made in Ayudhya period and was renovated later in Rattanakosin eriod, stands on a pyramidal pedestals in octagonal plan, while the chamber has multiple edges and cylindric finial.
ArchitecturePhra Pathomchedi
Phra Pathomchedi is the largest bell-shaped stupa in Thailand. Its anda is above the veranda in circular plan, where there is a clioster connecting viharns in the four directions. Its platform starts with a set of lotus-shaped pedestal, a set of pyramidal wires, an anda, a ballang in sqaure plan surrounded by supporting pillars and the cylindrical plump finial. The buddha figure in the northern viharn stands for his birth. The buddha figure in the easthern viharn stands for his enlightenment. The buddha figure in the southern viharn stands for his first teaching and The buddha figure in the western viharn stands for his attaining to nirvana.
