Saturday, May 9, 2009

Nang Kuchee Kom


This is Nang Kuchee Kom - servant of nang Kaiyakaesi - Nang Kuchee Kom was responsible for nang kayakaesi requesting Tao Tosarot to banish his Son and Heir to the Throne (Phra Ram) replacing him with Nang Kaiyakaesi's son Pra Prodt. In the Indian version of Ramayana, she is called Nang Montra - In Sanskrit, the word Kuchee means "hunchbacked", which is called "Kom" in Thai. So the Thai name for her became "Nang Kuchee Kom"
You can read about her in her role in the story, in the episode "Tao Totsarot dies brokenhearted"
Thai Poem from the Ramakian;
ถึงมาตรกูเป็นค่อมเค้า
ก็ข้าเก่านางไกยเกษี
พระรามทำคังนี้

ชีวีมิตายก็เห็นกัน
"even though i am an old hunchbacked servant, of Nang Kaiyakaesi, Phra Ram did what he did, as long as i live i shall await the day of reckoning