BANGKOK, April 10 (TNA) – Governors of provinces across Thailand were bringing vases of sacred water to the Interior Ministry as it
will be stored there for coronation-related ceremonies in May.
On Wednesday morning (April 10), Chatchai Phromlert,
permanent secretary of the Interior Ministry, paid homage in front of a
portrait of His Majesty the King in the ministry’s pavilion where the vases of
sacred water would be delivered.
From 7.50am onwards, motorcades transporting the vases
started to reach the ministry. In the morning, the vases arrived from provinces
in the Central Plains and the East. Motorcades carrying the vases of sacred
water from the North, the South and the Northeast arrived in the afternoon.
At 4.30pm, the permanent secretary of the Interior Ministry
and its senior officials were set to deliver nine vases of Muratha Bhisek
water.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will bring a vase of
Aphisek water from the Sattrakhom Hall in the Grand Palace to the Interior
Ministry on April 12.
On April 18, a procession will deliver the vases to Wat
Suthat Thepphawararam. All the sacred water will undergo a blessing ceremony
there. On April 19, the vases of Aphisek water will be moved from Wat Suthat
Thepphawararam to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace.
Muratha Bhisek water came from nine sacred sources and
Aphisek water from 108 sources including one at the Sattrakhom Hall in the
Grand Palace and the rest from sacred sources in 76 other provinces. (TNA)
