Thailand: Horse figure at Ku Ma, the chedi erected for Chamathewi's favourite horse, Lamphun, northern Thailand. When Queen Chamadevi's great war elephant, Blacky Purple died, it was buried with great honour beneath a chedi which still stands near Lamphun railway station. Here, too, can be seen monuments to Chamadevi's swiftest horse, her favourite cat and a special cockerel ‘which crowed so loud and shrill that it could clearly be heard as far as Lopburi’. Blacky Purple's monument, known locally as Ku Chang, is the most impressive of these monuments.

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