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   Bang Sai Chaleum Phrakiat Public Park

 

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Bang Sai Chaleum Phrakiat Public Park in Chonburi features an outdoor gym and health center, complete with shiny chrome fitness equipment, as well as some giant cultural icons, such as a covered Dragon Bridge (fig.).

 

In addition, there is also a Ganesha Shrine and a monument dedicated to King Rama IX, which consists of three statues of the three-headed elephant Erawan,  who was produced during the Churning of the Ocean of Milk (fig.), here raising a lotus.

 

   Bang Sai Chaleum Phrakiat Public Park

 

   Bang Sai Chaleum Phrakiat Public Park

 

Erawan, known in Hindu culture as Airavata (fig.), is a White Elephant and the mount of Indra, i.e. the Vedic god of the heavens, weather and war (fig.), and together they are depicted on the coat of arms of Bangkok (fig.), then with four tusks (fig.).

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