Long ago a young man and his mother lived in a small village of Ubon Ratcha Thanee.
He worked very hard every day. This man was bad-tempered and became angry easily.
One day he got up very early and went to work in the rice fields. After plowing for many hours
in the hot sun, he was tired and hungry. He rested under a tree and waited for his mother to bring his lunch. He waited for a very long time. Finally, his mother came with a small lunch-box. “I’m very sorry I’m late because I went to the temple first,” she said. But her son would not listen because he was angry and hungry. He took the lunch-box. “This lunch-box is too small to put the food in,” he complained. “But it is full,” his mother replied gently. “You’ll have enough to eat, my dear son.” “No, mother. It’s too small, and not enough to eat. I’m very hungry.” Her son did not hear her. He was so angry that he picked up the hoe—a tool used for digging the ground and suddenly hit his mother with it. Then he turned to the lunch-box and began to eat. When he had eaten only half of the food, he felt full. He still heard his mother’s voice, “You will have enough to eat, my dear son.” He looked around and saw his mother lying on the ground. He rushed to her and saw that she was dead. He realized what he had done, and began to cry. “Mother, please get up and forgive me. Don't leave me alone. Mother, wake up… forgive me.” He was so unhappy that he could not leave her dead body. His friends and the villagers saw and felt sorry for him, then they took him to see the abbot. The abbot said, “You must be ordained and built a Chedi
for your mother to make up for your sin. So, the man became a monk and built a small and beautiful chedi for his mother. Today it is called Chedi Kong Khao Noi, or the Chedi of the Small Lunch-Box. And nowadays it is in part of Yasothorn province.