Nai Dok (นายดอก)

Thai. ‘Mr. Flower’. Name of one of the eleven heroic leaders who in 1767, at the end of the Ayutthaya period, fought the invading Burmese in defence of the Bang Rajan fort in Singburi (fig.). He lived in Meuang Wisetchaichan (วิเศษชัยชาญ) which was attacked, captured and destroyed by the Burmese, prompting Nai Thong Kaew and the other inhabitants to spilt up and escape to different villages, fleeing the same time as Nai Thong Kaew, who lived in the same village. He joined the battle with the villagers of Bang Rachan and he, together with Nai Choht (นายโชติ), Nai Thong Hmen, and Nai Thong Kaew, led some 200 warriors across a canal to attack the enemy in the back. As a result, the Burmese were defeated and their General Surin Chokhong was killed. Nai Dok also died on the battlefield. In iconography, he is usually depicted holding a curved panabas-like sword, with a thick blunt tip and narrow near the hilt, reminiscent of a shakak thang, thangjau, or nawi battle ax, and known in Thai as dahb hua tat (ดาบหัวตัด). 回