1868.] 



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Buddhist countries, has been followed in arranging the chronology, 

 and the corresponding years B. C. and A. D. have occasionally been 

 inserted. I have found a difference of seven years between the reckon- 

 ing of the existing era in the Maha Radza Weng, and what is 

 deduced from adding up the number of years of each reign. Thus 

 A-nau-ra-hta is said to ascend the throne in the Burmese year 379. 

 But I make out the year to be 372— to A. D. 1010, and have 

 therefore so entered it in the list, This correction would make 

 the capture of Pu-gan by the Tartar army, occur in the year 1277, 

 A. D., instead of 1284, A. D., as stated in the text. 



Erratum. 

 In the paper on the history of the Burma race in note at page 

 27, Vol. XXII. it is stated that Buddhist missionaries probably first 

 went to Burma in the year 234 of religion, or twelve years before 

 Alexander crossed the Indus. There is an error in the last state- 

 ment. The year 234 of Gaudama's death, corresponds with the 

 year 309, B. G. being seventeen years after Alexander had crossed 

 the Indus. 



No. 1. — List of the kings of Surma as entered in the Malm 



Radza Weng. 



Names of Icings. 



Explanatory Remarks. 



Abhi Radza. 



Da-za Radza. 



This king who came from Kap-pi-ta-wot, and his 

 thirty-two successors reigned at Tagung or 

 Thenga-tha-rahta. No date is given for the 

 commencement of the dynasty. The last king 

 named Bhein-na-ka was driven from his country 

 by an invasion of tribes from the east. His 

 queen Na-ga-tshein settled at Ma-le above Ava. 



This king is represented as coining from Kap-pi- 

 la-wot to settle in the country of the Upper 

 Irrawaddy. He married the queen Na-ga- 

 tshein. They and their descendants reign at 

 Mauriza, Theng-dwe, Upper Pu gan, and Pin- 

 tsa-ta-yung. Seventeen kings of this race reign- 

 ed. The last was Tha-clo-Ma-ha Radza. It 

 was the two sons of this king who are repre- 

 sented as being set afloat on the Irrawaddy, 

 and ' floating down to Prome, near to which 

 place, Tha-re-khet-ta-ra's dynasty commenced to 

 reign, in the year 60 of the Buddhist religion, 

 or B. C. 483. 



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