56 The History of Labong. [Jan. 



three in Kim-yea, five in Wen-congkan. In 651* he crossed the 

 Thaluen river, and married a daughter of Thootha Thoma, king of 

 Pegu, with whom he received in dower four hundred Taliens or Peguers 

 and their wives, the town Yain Salen and its dependencies, and returned 

 to his country ; and on Thursday the full moon of Kasong, (May,) 

 656, at midnight, founded Zama-pada-pur-there-nagara-nawara-raza,' 

 tani, or Zimmay, measuring from east to west five hundred talsf, 

 from north to south four hundred and fifty tals ; built his palace of 

 Zayaboungme ; reigned thirty-seven years ; in 623 died, aged eighty, 

 and was succeeded by his son Ngathen-Pootchoo, who in 695 was 

 succeeded by his son Tso-tchomta-yung ; and he in the same year by 

 his son Na-tchoon-tarcung ; and he in 



698 by his son Nga-thenpoo ; and he was succeeded in 



707 by his son Tso-kanpew ; he in 



709 by his son Tso-boa-you ; and he in 



731 by his son Goon a ; and he in 



739 by his son-in-law Gnathenmima ; and he in 



742 by his son Thambi ; and in 



782 his son Tso-Benya succeeded ; and in 



817 his son Tso-neat succeeded ; and in 



825 his son Benya Tsothee, called also There-tha~da-matilanka-seek- 

 ka-wa-te-ya-za ; in 



865 his son Tso-myneae succeeded; and in 



899 his son Benya Tsay ; in 



904 his son Tso-myne ; in 



906 his ddLUgh.terZAhA-PA.BA, cdlledalsoThere-thadama-maha-day-we. 



920 Sen-bue-mya-sheen, king of Pegue, took the town, but allowed 

 the queen to enjoy the revenues with the royal title till her death, 

 when he gave the town and revenue to his son Narata-tso, the 

 myo-tsa, (literally, town-eater: the person who enjoys the revenue 

 of a town amongst the Burmese is so called). Sarawadi, in the 



* To account for the discrepance in the dates of Labong and Zimmay, it is to 

 be stated that the common era has been twice altered ; once 624 years after the 

 death of Gaudamah, by There Moungdari, king of There; Kit-tara, 

 who dropped 622 years, and commenced from 2. The second alteration was 

 made by Thengaret, king of Pagan, in the seventeenth year of his reign, 562 

 years from the reign of There Moungdari, who dropped 560 years, and again 

 commenced with 2. Labong was founded 1118 years after the death of 

 Gaudamah; and Zimmay 656 years after the alteration of Thengaret, or 

 1838 years of the death of Gaudamah ; giving a period of 720 years to 54 

 kings, and average of thirteen years and some odd months and days to each 

 reign. (See Chron. Appendix, page 84. — Ed.) 



t The tals, is seven cubits. 



