118 The Pegu Pagoda. [No. 2, 



" Tas," on the south 400 " Tas." After this the king raised the 

 Shwe Hmawdaw 5 cubits more, making it 80 cubits high, and dedi- 

 cated to it three more famalies of Moonetkarie. The Pagodas, monas- 

 teries and other religious works erected by this monarch are innumer- 

 able, and all men are exhorted to follow his example. 



In this style the chronicler goes on, giving a minute history of the 

 additions to the repairs and embellishments of the Shwe Hmawdaw 

 under each succeeding monarch, down to Badoon Meng, the Burman, 

 king who built the city of Amarapoora, 1143 B. E.— 1781 A. J). 

 He gives, likewise, a complete list of the other meritorious works, 

 building of Pagodas, monasteries, &c. by which the reigns of these 

 kings were distinguished. 



As the recital of these works, however veracious it may he, is 

 somewhat tedious and uninteresting, except to a pious Boodhist, it will 

 be omitted in the present narrative. The names of the kings with the 

 dates of their accession will be given in a tabular form, and the more 

 remarkable events only, which are mentioned in the Thamaing, will 

 be noticed in the text. 



The ninth monarch, Kawarieka, is said to have been a more powerful 

 monarch than his predecessors, and to have received on this account 

 tribute, which may be interpreted presents, from the kings of Siam, 

 Thatoon, Ceylon, China and Pagaw. The same is related of his son 

 Pecutsalaraza. This king, Pecutsalaraza, established the Karanee 

 monastery, about two miles west of Pegu, where there is still a 

 " Thein" or Buddhist consistory built of masonry, some wooden 

 monasteries, and a small stone-henge, an interesting relic of the original 

 establishment. This consists of a number of granite pillars about 

 eight feet high, planted on the ground, and covered with inscriptions 

 in the square Pali character. Many of them, thick and massive as 

 they are, have been broken and thrown down, and the inscription 

 partially effaced. The copy of what remains, fills a small closely 

 written volume, the contents of which I have not yet been able to go 

 through. The 12th king, Anooramaraza, signalized his reign by 

 procuring a holy tooth-relic from Theeree-dhamma-thawka, the prince 

 of Thatoon. This he enshrined in the Shwe Hmawdaw. 



The 17th king, Tietha, is notorious in Talaing history as having 

 for a time abjured the Buddhist faith, and made great havoc among 



