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Somdet Phra Bawonratchao Maha Sakdiphonlasep (สมเด็จพระบวรราชเจ้ามหาศักดิพลเสพ; October 21, 1785 – May 1, 1832) was appointed by Nangklao (Rama III) as the Front Palace, or Second King, and thus titular heir to the throne.

Early life
Born Prince Arunotai (อรุญญไท "Tai dawn") to King Buddha Loetla Nabhalai (Rama II) and his concubine Nuiyai, the Prince served with the future Rama III during the Nine Armies' Wars with Burma.

Career
Sakdiphonlasep (compound of sakdi, (by) right (of) phonla, military force sep, habit-forming) was awarded this name when advanced to the princely rank of kromma muen (กรมหมื่น) and appointed (ทรงกรม song krom) to the post of  Foreign Minister.

Crawfurd Mission
April 8, 1822, East India Company agent John Crawfurd was granted an audience with the King, which concluded with HM saying: "Whatever you have to say, communicate to the minister, Suri-wung-kosa (สุรีวงศ์-โกษา). What we chiefly want from you are fire-arms." Crawfurd upon arrival had met the deputy of the Foreign Minister, Pia-pipat kosa,  and advised the Minister's name was Suri-wrung-kosa, [sic]  — this  informal name means "of the illustrious lineage of kosa," i.e., the office of 17th Century Foreign Minister Kosa Pan (โกษาปาน)  who had supported the coup of 1688, and was claimed to be a direct ancestor of the  Chakri dynasty. "Foreign Minister" is also used by Crawfurd in referringing the higher-ranked Prince Krom-chiat, at the time Phra-klang (defined in a footnote as "Literally, Lord or Master of the Warehouses," and in the lead to chapter 4 as "the Prince Krom-chiat, now King of Siam.")

He was later appointed the Muen Sakdiphonlasep' Kromma Muen was as King Nangklao (Rama III) crowned in 1824 and, consequently, Sakdiphonlasep was made the "Second King". He led the Siamese armies into Isan to fight with King Anouvong of Vientiene in 1825.

Sakdiphonlasep ordered the construction of the Bowonniwet Temple (lit. temple where the Front Palace lived) - the seat of the Sangharaja today and where Prince Mongkut (future Rama IV) became an abbot. In 1829, he ordered the Buddha Chinnasri - a 900-year old Sukhothai Buddha statue from Pitsanulok - to be floated along the river and placed at the Bowonniwet Temple.

His funeral procession was held 2 April 1833, with cremation set for seven days later. The king, through the Phraklang, invited US diplomat Edmund Roberts and party to witness the procession, which Roberts describes in journal. Roberts notes that one of the sons of the wang-na watches at the temple, near the funeral pile, night and day, till the body is consumed; the ashes of the consumed body are then thrown into the river with many ceremonies; and the unconsumed bones are then delivered to the priests, and made into household gods [sic]. (Roberts refers to Buddhist monks as "Talapoy," from Portuguese talapão from Burmese tala poi our lord.)