Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1873

In the 7th book of that work when describing Siva's approach to the palace of Himaliya the poet says that " the faces of the ladies who rushed to the windows in great haste and with half finished toilettes to behold the prcession evolved the odour of the arrack they had drunk and their dark eyes appeared like black bees on charming lotuses."t Migha in the Sisupilabhadha describing. [...] The country now called Pegu or as written by the natives Bee) and P4gu consisted iu ancient times of the delta of the E-ri-ovti and the land in the lower courses of the rivers Sit-tfiung and Thdn-lwin (Saiwin). [...] 'At different times the coast as far south as the Tenasserim River has been suject to the monarciy while to the north the limits of the kingdom :aried according to the power of the kings to defend their territory from the Bumese. [...] This was for the defence of the palace the throne room" being as is now the case at the Burmese capital nearly the central point of the city. [...] *Concerning the foundation of the city of Pegu the legends relate that nt the time when the lord Gautama came through the air attended by thousands of Itahandas to visit the king of Tha-htun the sea flowed over the wkole of the low country now occupied by Itangun and Pegn.