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repaired by king Byeenya-rau-khaik. This king reigned 30 years.* 



His son and successor Byeenya-kharo is said to have been a very 

 just monarch, and several instances are given of the inflexibly strict 

 manner in which he administered justice. In A. D. 1388 a female 

 sovereign, queen Beengnya-daw or Byeengnya-daw Shengtsawboo 

 reigned in Pegu. She was 58 years old when she came to the throne. 

 After residing seven years in Hanthawaclie, she left her son in charge 

 of that town, and removed her court to Dagoon (Rangoon). She built 

 a place to the south-west of the Shwe Tskaudaw (Shwe Dagoon), and 

 dedicated lands within the following limits to the service of the Pagoda. 

 On the east Kyaik-kanet, on the south Kyaik-kanoot, on the west 

 Kyaik-myoungmya, and on the north Kyaik-mo-rap.f 



The queen was succeeded by her son-in-law Dhamma-tsedee who 

 built another capital to the west of the original town of Hanthawaclie. 

 This king received a present of 100,000 paving-stones from Ceylon. 

 With half of these he paved the court of the Shwe Dagoon, and used 

 the other half for a similar purpose at the Shwe Hmawdaw. 



The twelfth king of the Martaban dynasty was conquered by the great 

 Toungnoo king Tabeng-shwe-htee, of whom the clnonicler records 

 nothing, except that he kept the Shwe Hmawdaw in good order, and 

 performed other meritorious works. 



He was succeeded by Thamaing-claw-rwot-kalie whose lineage is 

 not specified, but he was probably a descendant of the Martaban race 

 of kings. His reign is memorable, from his having been the last 

 monarch who added to the height of the Shwe Hmawdaw. Subsequent 

 monarchs repaired it and gave new Htees, but none of them added to 

 the building itself. Thamangdaw raised it six cubits, making its 

 height altogether 205 cubits=324 feet about. At this height it has 

 remained ever since, being a few feet higher than the Shwe Dagoon of 

 Rangoon. 



Thamangdaw was dethroned by another celebrated Toungnoo 

 monarch, known as Tsheng-hbyoo-mya-sheng (Lord of many white 

 elephants) . This king removed his capital to Pegu, and built the 



* In the A. S. Journal No. 5 of 1859, Col. A. P. Phayre, in his account of the 

 Shwe Dagoon Pagoda, states : " It was not until the reign af Ban-gya-rau, in 

 808, that anything was done to restore the Shwe Dagoon." " Ban-gya" should 

 have been written Bangya or Bangnya, pronounced " Beenga." 



t Kyaik is the Burmanized form of a Talaing word " kyat," meaning a 

 Pagoda. 



