1837.] The History of Lubong. 55 



the Ganges. I mean the disappearance from the surface, near where 

 they leave the outer range of hills, and then again emerging at the 

 distance of 10 or 12 miles lower down; thus shewing the complete 

 permeability of the gravel beds through which they must be supposed 

 to trickle — and that this is in some measure the case in the Jumna 

 also, is rendered probable by a circumstance which came under our 

 observation in the great drought of 1833-34. 



In order to supply the excessive demand for water for irrigation, it 

 became necessary to throw a gravel bund right across the Jumna — 

 just below the head of the canal ; and at this very period, as appears 

 from a record kept in the Executive Engineer's Office at Agra, a slight 

 diminution only of the waters of the Jumna at that place was 

 observable. 



VII. — The History of Lubong from the Native Records consulted by 

 Dr. D. Richardson, forming an Appendix to his journals published 

 in the preceding volume*. 



The annals of Lubong reach back to the same remote and fabulous 

 period as those of the neighboring nations. In the year 1118, (A. 

 D. 574,) after Gaudamah had obtained nib-ban, or eternal rest, two 

 holy men, WATHoo-DAr-WAf and Tuka-danda, (having first buried a 

 shell with the spiral turned the reverse way,) by prayers and holiness 

 raised from out the earth the walls, gates, and ramparts, and sunk the 

 fo?se of Labong. They marked the site of the pagoda, and during 

 two years employed themselves in calling together the people from 

 the surrounding forests and small villages. In 1120 they raised to 

 the throne Rama or Zamma-day-we, daughter of the king of Chanda- 

 pur (or, Wintian, the capital of Saroarata-ty-ne), and widow of a 

 prince of Cambodia. She had twin sons, Mahanta-yatha. The elder 

 succeeded her in Labong, received the common title of " Sen-bur 

 Sheen," or Lord of the White Elephant, for having caught one of that 

 color. Aindawaraja, the younger, built and reigned in Lagon. In 

 Labong (the Magadharrame of which is Hari-boung Zayatyne) from 

 Rama-day-we to Adutza-woon-tha, who built the pagoda (assein 

 daydj there reigned 35 kings, and from Adutza-woon-tha to Benya- 

 theoha 19 ; in all 54 kings reigned in Labong. Benya-men-yea, 

 called in Ava History Dolana Benya-tso-men-yea, the son of 

 Benya-thooha, succeeded him, and reigned ten years in Labong, 



* We have already quoted from this document in manuscript; see Appendix 

 General Tables, page 135. — Ed. 

 t Vasu-deva ?— Ed. 



