During the reign of the celebrated King Chulalongkong, renowned as the Great Well-beloved Monarch , who was King Rama V of the Chakri Dynasty of the Chakri Dynasty of the Kingdom of Thailand, there came a devoted gentleman from Burma, by the name of U San Ohn, to this city of Lampang and settled here making his livelihood as a timber merchant.
Being devoted to the Three Gems, of generous nature and desirous of the welfare of the S?sana, the said U San Ohn, in the year of our Lord Buddha 2437, the Burmese Saka Era 1526. Bought a plot of land at the Pomelo Fording Place on the bank of River Wang, and erected a monastery on that land for the Sangha. He thereafter built a dwelling place for monks, a refactory, assmbly halls for the Laity, water closets for both monks and Laity, wells, a Chapter House and a wall surrounding the monastery, He also supported the monks and novices dwelling here with the four requisites as long as he lived. The support has been carried on by his descendants up to this day.
The monastery was given the name Pomelo Fording Place Monastery after the fording place on which it was built. It is called Wat Tamao in local dialect by word transposition; Wat meaning Monastery, Ta meaning Fording Place, and Mao meaning Pomelo. The site on which the Monastery was built is 40 fathoms in length and 40 fathoms in breadth within the walls and 31 fathoms in length and 18 fathoms breadth outsite the walls to the north.
Here is the Line of Incumbents:
The first Incumbent was U Nandiay,
The second U Tikkha by name;
Thera the third was U Neminda,
Their names but now remain.
Lecturer of the Dhamma is he,
Who now resides herein,
U Dhammananda the malice-free,
Serving the cause o religion.
Attained he to Incumbancy in the Era
Nine and two thousand five hundred;
Founded the School the following year,
For the good o the Teching Exalted.
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