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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1868

1869

[Received 25th July 1868.) In the thirty-second volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society for the year 1864 the present writer following the Maha-radzweng traced the history of the Burma race from the earliest time down to the arrival of the two sons of the king of Tagung at the site of the present town of Prome. [...] When the people of the country brought the gold of the holy image into daily use the seven excellent nits who had presided over the building of the city were offended and the whole country became oninsed and distracted with robbery and violence. [...] The historian of the Mahe-radza-weng then narrates at great length the ancient legends concerning the country of Pugan so as to connect t ho kings of the ancient royal race of Tagting on the pper IlTwaddy with the kings of the great city which was now to arrive. [...] " Thus " he concludes " in oM& to set forth distinctly the account of the arrival in the Burma country of the scriptures the root.and foundation of religion which htd been omited in the great and the middle Aidzi-weng I have extracted the narrative thereof from the religious books." King Kyting-du-rit died after a reign of twenty-fiveyears. [...] The first king of the dynasty of Tha-re-Ithet-ta-rai named Bia-lit-thlim.ba-vni is stated to have become king in the year 60 of religion 483 B. O. The number of years of the reigns of all the kings of Tha-re-khet-ta-ri and of Pugin from that timo to the end of the reign of Thenga Itilds4i as given in the history and including an interregnum of thirteen years amount to 1120.
history
Pages
67
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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