He saw his mother lying still and he rushed to her at once. The
poor old woman had hit her head on the floor when she had fallen down
and she was dead. Having realized how violently he had treated his
mother, he hugged her dead body and cried his heart out. But his
mother could in no way come back to life.
Thong built a stupa there to
dedicate merit to his mother and to keep
her bone. The stupa was shaped like that
box of rice. People, therefore, called it
“The stupa of a small Box of Rice." It is in
Yasothorn province.