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there was a king who had a son,
Reachkol, and settled his royal
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loved that baby crocodile
raised it till it grew up. It
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to their request and replied in a
massage which read, "If you are
satisfied with my daughter,
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very satisfied and then
ordered his royal servants to
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to put into a junk and left for
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"Hey! Athun, it's me," said Phreah Bath

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anything crazy!" "I serve anyone who
gives me food," replied Athun.
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Princess Rom Saysak. The place at the trunk of the crocodile
became a hill which is nowadays called, "Phnom Krorpeu"
(crocodile hill), and the place where its tail flicked and the place
at its nose created two lakes called Boeng Kontuy Krorper (lake
of crocodile tail) and Boeng Chrormos Krorper (lake of crocodile
nose) respectively. And the place the junk also created a hill ,
which exactly looks like a junk been called Phnom Sompov
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and his wife, accompanied by his
servants, rode an elephant back to his
palace. While traveling on half way,
he saw such those hills that he
became so furious with Neang
Sovann Maksa. Thanks to
her wickedness, everything
was destroyed.
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Reachkol ordered hangmen to arrest her in order to be sen-
tenced to death, avoiding that she might make more troubles.
And the place which her head had fallen became a hill called
Phnom Song Kbal, but it is now called Phnom Song Kban
instead .