Thai Dolls: Unarut and Kinnaree 🇹🇭

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Unarut (the grandson of Krishna's story): Thai literature of the performing arts, based on the Indian epic the Mahabharata, depicted the life history of Krishna's grandson, Aniruddha.

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The story of Aunnarut is sourced from the Aunnarut Kamchan stanza in the Ayutthaya period. This has been influenced by the Anirudh is in Sanskrit literature which are Vishnu Purana Shivapurana and scriptures of Hariwong that are in the appendix of Mahabharata scripture. As well as from the Usahorn story, the Hindi drama.

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Khon masked dance and Thai classical dances have had a strong influence on neighboring Cambodia. During the period when Cambodia was under Siamese rule, Cambodian kings invited dancers from Siam to teach Cambodian performers in the royal court. As a result, Cambodian dances appear to be a copied version of Thai dances. 

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Credit: Chewin Malipunte, Thai Culture to the World