Under the ideology of the royal chronicles, the kings had more
and less merit, thus moral power, according to their deeds. The results
of battles reflected the level of their moral power. The two falls of
Ayutthaya reflected the higher moral power of the Burmese kings as
opposed to the wicked kings of Ayutthaya in both cases. The triumph
of Naresuan and Taksin also reflected their higher moral power, while
their contemporary Burmese kings were wicked. The plot of the royal
chronicles is always simple, the rise and fall of individual kings. The
elaboration in more detail of those two periods by the royal chronicles
themselves reflects the chronicles’ ideology that those monarchs, both
Thai and Burmese ones, were among the supreme conquerors, the
Universal Monarchs, of the past