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‘The *phra-chedi* (of Vāt Jai at Sukhodaya) is based apparently on the *stūpas* of India, the cells containing the relics of Buddha, however, being placed underground, and reached in the larger examples by secret passages in the thickness of the walls. The enormous structures now existing of the Pathom *chedi* is the second enclosure or envelope of the original *chedi*, and rises to the height of 344 feet. It is surrounded by a triple gallery with numerous pavilions, the roofs of which were in the last rebuilding (of 1862) copied from those of Angkor Vāt in Cambodia.’¹