Lawacangkara, a son of the gods, consented to the words of Indra, saying,
‘Sadhu! Good! Fine! He then left the heavens and descended down a bejewelled
ladder from heaven with a thousand of his retainers; or, put another way, to the
pinnacle of Doi Tung to take un-parented birth as a royal scion of sixteen years,
finely dressed on a fine wooden throne comported near the Mae Sai in
Jayavaranagara—that is Chiang Rao. As for his thousand retainers, they all, men
and women alike, came to be born similarly, as princes and princesses sixteen
years of age, possessed of wondrous beauty and complexion, resplendent
everywhere. (Wyatt and Aroonrut 1995, 5–6)