Abstract

The Tenets Spoken by Indra is a discourse on good judgement from the Ayutthaya-era Three Seals Law. It has a lecture on avoiding the four wrong courses (agati), which is conventional for old legal texts in Buddhist societies, but in other ways is rather unusual. It may be unique among such old law texts in giving Indra the leading role. Its instructions to judges on reaching a good judgement employ several unusual figures of speech. It may technically still be in force. We believe this is the first full English translation of the text.

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