•200 KANDY VXD PRRADEXIA. [I'akt VIT. 



revived, and not only a duplicate, but a triplicate of tlie 

 desecrated relic were regarded with undiminished ado 

 ration both in Pegu and Ceylon. The story of the 

 resuscitated imposture is related by De Couto. The 

 Idng of Pegu, in 1566, ha\'ing been told by the astro- 

 logers that he was to wed, a Singhalese princess, sent 

 to demand her in marriao;e : ■ but the reio-uino; sove- 



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reign, Don Juan Dharma Pala, ha\'ing unfortunately 

 no child, the prophecy was on the point of discomfiture ; 

 when liis chamberlain, a nobleman of the blood royal, 

 suo-o-ested the substitution of liis o"\vii dauo-hter, and 

 added impiety to fraud by feigning to the Peguan 

 envoys that he still held in secret the genuine dalada, 

 falsely supposed to have been destroyed by the Chris- 

 tians at Goa. The device was successfid, the supposi- 

 titious princess was received in Pegu with all the nuptial 

 honours of royalty ; and ambassadors were despatched 

 to Ceylon, to obtain possession of the sacred tooth, 

 which Avas forthwith transferred to Arracan. 



The king of Kandy, Wiki'ama Bahu, on learning the 

 deception which had been perpetrated by his cousin of 

 Cotta, apprised the Peguan sovereign of the impostm-e 

 Avliich had been practised upon him ; and to redress it he 

 offered him his own daughter in marriage, and proposed 

 as her dowry to send the veritable tooth, afhrming that 

 both the one recently obtamed from Colombo, and the 

 other formerly pulverised at Goa, were counterfeit, his 

 alone being the genuine rehc of Buddha.^ But the 

 prince of Pegu was too devout to confess himself a 

 dupe ; " he gave ear to the ambassadors," says Faria y 

 Souza, " but not to their information, and thus had Don 

 Constantine de Braganza sold the tooth, as he was 



* The Singhalese never seem to I "and obtained from the kinjr (of Cey- 



have been sci-iipulous about multi 

 ph-infj Buddha's teeth. For ^Marco 

 Polo says tlie Great Khan Khubla 

 sent to demand one in tlie year 1281, 



Ion) two large back teeth, together 

 with some of his hair and a handsome 

 vessel of porphyry." — ^Iaijco Polo. 

 Trarch, S^-c, b. iii. eh. xxiii. p. 071. 



