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The Pyu repelled the attack. The Kan-ran fled and returned to, or . 

 then established themselves at, Than-dwai, (Sandoway), and in the 

 seven hill districts lying along the eastern side of the Arakau 

 mountain range in that neighbourhood. The queen of the Pyu then 

 established herself at the Thagga lake. After a time she resigned 

 the sovereignty of her people to Mahathambawa. She was of the 

 true Sakya race, descended from Mu-du-tseit-ta, son of Kan Eadzagyi, 

 who, as before related, had been made by his father king over the 

 tribes Pyu, Kanran, and Thek or Sak. Mahathambawa made the 

 Pyii queen his second wife. This was in the year 60 of religion. 

 The Pyu queen gave birth to a daughter, and soon after died Maha- 

 thambawa died in the year of religion 66, aged twenty-six years. 

 At the time of his death Queen Bhedari was pregnant with the son to 

 whom she afterwards gave birth, and through whom the royal race 

 was continued. He was called Dwot-ta-bung. 



Mahathambawa was succeeded, by his brother Tsu-la-tham-bawa. 

 Bhedari became his queen also. He reigned thirty-five years and 

 died in the year 101 of religion. 



Dwot-ta-bung now became king. The time had come when the 

 predictions of Graudama were to be fulfilled. The city of Tha-re- 

 khet-ta-ra, was, with the help of the heavenly beings termed Nat, 

 built on an extensive plain, to the eastward of the present town of 

 Prome. This was in the year 101 of religion. This king had great 

 power and authority. He married two wives ; first, his half sister 

 born to his father by the queen of the Pyu people, and named 

 Tsanda-de-wi ; and second, Bhe-tsan-di, the daughter of the king of 

 the Na-gas or dragons. His reign is described as glorious, and he 

 built many pagodas. A cave and a well of water, are still shown by 

 the people of Prome, as those of the great and good king Dwot-ta- 

 bung. He ruled over many countries adjoining his native kingdom. 

 But he was guilty of one act of injustice which diminished his power 

 and shortened his days. A poor woman, who sold bread, bestowed 

 five pai of land on the Rahans of a monastery. The king, wishing 

 . to possess the land, confiscated it. His good fortune at once 

 abandoned him. His celestial weapons no longer had any power and 

 his glory declined. He then restored the land. But the evil result 

 of his sin could not be shaken off. His tributary kings withheld 



