My Khmer Root

  The Proposal The 1 st century ad Since the date Prince Kumeru first met Princess Nagi, he can’t sleep and always thinking about her. He decided to speak to his teacher asking for his advice. His teacher suggested that Prince should go asking the King and the Queen of Naga for their daughter to become his wife. Prince prepared his journey to meet the Princess’s parents, but suddenly a message arrived from the Naga palace asking Prince to meet the King and the Queen of Naga. As soon as he heard the news, Prince was worry and happy at the same time. He took his horse riding alone on his way to meet the King and the Queen. He arrived at the palace and entered in the palace, he saw a beautiful Princess Nagi sitting next to her father, the Queen came out taking Prince’s hand and introduced to Princess Nagi telling Prince that Princess Nagi was in love with Prince and she wanted to marry with Prince. Prince was so shy blushing, smiling and happy to hear that. He was so in love with...

  The Meeting The 1 st Century ad A few months later, Prince received the news that the King and Queen of Naga wanted to meet him in their palace. Prince was curious asked himself who were they? Prince agreed to go to meet them, so he took a horse and only ten men with him, but ordered 100 men to stay in the ship, other 200 men followed behind him secretly and told his men be alert at all time. Prince arrived in front of a big palace, he can see it was built by wood not by concrete and stone like his palace in his Kingdom, he saw about 1000 men in arms standing beside the palace look like waiting for someone. He realized that he couldn’t never win in battle with only his 200 men against 1000 men. So, he tried to be calm, be strong and be polite. The King and Queen came out of the palace, looked and walked around Prince with admiration, they met a handsome Prince, polite and courage, he came to meet them only with one horse and 10 men. The King and Queen invited Prince to go insi...

Arriving at Kok Tlok Kingdom  នគរគោកធ្លក    Prince Kumeru vs. Princess Nagi The 1 st Century ad Princess Nagi prepared a ship for sailing  as soon as receiving the news that there was a big ship of strangers approaching her territory, quickly ordering her troops of 200 fighters to get ready to fight against the intrusion of the strangers to protect her island. Princess’s ship was small comparing to a big ship of Prince and most of her troops were women. As soon as Prince’s ship approached near the island, hundreds of arrows flying over his head. Prince was surprised, but quickly ordered his crew to use their bows shooting out arrows back to the princess’s ship. The fighting between Princess and Prince continued for a while causing near hundred deaths of each side until Prince using his bow shooting out his fire arrows to hit and broke the Princess’s ship, her ship was in fire sinking into the water. Princess and the rest of her troops were terrified by this in...