From time immemorial, people in Asia have to imgrated from their original homeland and sought places where they could live i peace and security, far from the strife and enmity of neighbouring tribes and this is also true of the people we know today as Thais. the word THAI means free and at the begining of the second century B.C. their long migration from from the valleys between the Huang Ho and the Yangtze Kiang in China began in earnest(Sir Charles Eliot. Hindu & Buddhism V. III). they moved ever southwards because of conflicts with neighbouring tribes and one group called Thai yai (literally big thai) moved to what we are now know as Shan States, to the plains of the Salween River and other areas and as far afield as modern Assam. the Thai Noi (which mean small thai) reached present-day Thailand. So According to the Archaeology the place where we called nowaday as Nakon Pathom, or in Sankskrit, Nagara Prathama used to inhabited by the people called Mon-Khmer or Khmer-Mon.
Pali literature of South-east Asia by Dr. Hammalawa Saddhatissa
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