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ances which followed, Tsau-M was killed. Kyan-tsit-tha then defeat- 

 ed the rebel, and took the throne in the year 426 of the existing 

 Burmese era. He is also called Hti-hlaing-sheng. 



On the accession of Kyan-tsit-tha to the throne, a not very intelli- 

 gible story is told of an intention to marry his daughter to the son of 

 the king of Pa-teik-ka-ra, a name here given to some part of Bengal. 

 The marriage was eventually disallowed, it is stated, by the advice of 

 the nobles, " lest the country should become kula or foreign." Not- 

 withstanding this the princess is represented as with child by the 

 kula prince, though doubt is afterwards thrown upon this fact, and 

 she gave birth to a son, who afterwards succeeded to the throne, under 

 the name of A-lung-tsi-thu. But the kula prince committed suicide, 

 and the princess was married to Tsau-gwon, the son of king Tsau-lu. 

 So highly did Kyan-tsit-tha regard his grandson that, while he 

 was yet a child, he underwent the ceremony of bi-the-ka, or consecra- 

 tion as a king, and received the name of Thi-ri-dze-ya-thu-ra. Kyan- 

 tsit-tha either enlarged or completed, the Shwe-zi-gun pagoda built by 

 his father. 



Once there came to Pu-gan eight Ra-han-das from the Gan-da-ma- 

 da-na mountain. They presented a model of the Nan-da-mii-la cave 

 which is in that mountain. And the king determined to build one 

 like it. This was done, and it was called the Nan-da-Phra. The 

 king also built many pagodas at various places near the city. He 

 died after a reign of twenty-eight years. 



His grandson now ascended the throne. Though he received a name 

 at the time of consecration from his grandfather, yet the title of 

 Alung-tsi-thu, referring to the great drum of the palace having at his 

 birth sounded without the agency of man, has been retained for him 

 in history. Soon after the commencement of his reign, he built the 

 Shwe-kii temple now to be seen at Pu-gan. This king travelled 

 throughout the whole extent of his dominions. He went into Arakan 

 and the adjoining country of Bengal, where he visited the stone images 

 set up by his great grandfather A-nau-ra-hta. It is said also that he 

 visited Ceylon. He regulated the weights and measures throughout 

 the kingdom. During the reign of Kyan-tsit-tha, the heir to the king 

 of Arakan had been expelled from his kingdom by a rebel. He came 

 and resided at Pu-gan and there a son was born to him named Let-ga- 



