HISTORICAL AWARENESS OF CONSECRATED WATER SOURCES IN CHAINAT PROVINCE

Abstract

This article, written in response to an awareness issue of consecrated water sources in Chainat province, emphasizes an explanation of Chainat consecrated water source usage in coronations, which was first used in the second coronation of Rama VI in 1911 and continued until the coronation of Rama IX in 1950. There are two water sources consisting of the Chao Praya River in front of Wat Thammamun Worrawihan and Wat Phra Borrommathat Worrawihan. However, it has been discovered that there is currently only one consecrated water source in Chainat province, which is the Chao Praya River in front of Wat Thammamun Worrawihan. This could be due to a lack of access to historical documents, as well as a change in the celebrations of Rama IX's 5th cycle birthday anniversary ceremony in 1987, when the province used an ancient Buddhist holy water well discovered in 1975 in Wat Phra Borrommathat Worrawihan chapel. These factors have resulted in a historical misunderstanding of consecrated water sources in Chainat province.