Pattaya Mail reporter Patcharapol Panrak and his family donated 1,000 bags of rice to the disabled, needy, children and the elderly in Sattahip to make merit to commemorate the 245th anniversary of the coronation of King Taksin the Great.
Patcharapol and his family presented the 5,000 kg. of rice Dec. 28 at his home on Soi Khaopet. A large group of neighbors looked on.
Monks from Wat Khao Kantamat, a local temple near the family home, also arrived to chant for the ceremony. The Panrak family prayed, made merit and fed the monks lunch.
The Panrak family prayed, made merit and fed the monks lunch.
Patcharapol said the rice was a gift and offered to acknowledge the work of King Taksin, who liberated old Siam from Burmese occupation after the second fall of capital Ayutthaya in 1767, and the subsequent unification of Siam after it fell under various warlords.
He established the city of Thonburi, across the Chao Phraya River from the current Bangkok, as the new capital, as Ayutthaya has been almost completely destroyed by invaders. His reign was characterized by numerous wars fought to repel new Burmese invasions and to subjugate the northern Thai kingdom of Lanna, the Laotian principalities and Cambodia.
Pattaya Mail reporter Patcharapol Panrak and his family donated 1,000 bags of rice to the disabled, needy, children and the elderly in Sattahip.
