This is the illustration made by an 8-year-old boy. Each individual drawing created from the given Thai numerals reflects his thought on Indian and Thai cultures. For example, an elephant and a buddha image developed from number 1 and 6 strongly represent Thailand. A king cobra from number 9, surly relates to India because that where king cobras mainly live.
This drawing of the upside down king cobra actually reminds me of a Naga which is a serpent being from ancient Indian mythology. I really like the drawing that he made of Taj Mahal for number 5. It's really amazing to me how a little boy can be so creative that he could just create any drawing out of a specific given character.
Interestingly, when he was asked to rewrite those Thai numerals without looking at the example that I gave him earlier, he wrote down most of the numbers with very subtle mistake. It was surprising to me that he got most of them correct even though he only had a chance to look at those numbers once as a reference for his drawings.
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