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and of the founding and history of the old city of Tagoung, is given in 

 the 3rd volume of the Chronicles of the Kings of Ava. Here is an 

 abstract of the tale. 



Long before the appearance of Gaudama, a King of Kauthala* and 

 Pinjalarit, desiring to be connected by marriage with the King of 

 Kauliya, sent to demand a daughter, but receiving a refusal on the 

 ground of his being of an inferior race, he declared war and destroyed 

 the three cities of Kauliya, Dewadaha, and Kappilawot, which were 

 governed by the Thdki race of kingsf. These cities were afterwards 

 restored, and the Thdki line re-established ; but on the occasion of the 

 above disaster, one of the Thdki race of kings, Abhi'raja, the king of 

 Kappilawot, retired with his troops and followers from Central India, 

 and came and built Tagoung, which was then also styled Thengat tha 

 ratha and Thengat tha nago. Here had stood a city in the times of the 

 three preceding Buddhas. In the time of Kekkuthan it was called 

 Tkanthaya pdra ; in that of Gounagoun, Ratha para, and in that of 

 Katthaba, Thendwe. On the death of king Abhi'raja', his two sons, 

 Kan Yaza' gyee and Kan Ya'za ngay, disputed the throne, but agreed 

 by the advice of their respective officers to let the question be decided 

 in this way, that each should construct a large building on the same 

 night, and he, whose building should be found completed by the 

 morning, should take the throne. The younger brother used planks 

 and bamboos only, and covered the whole with cloth, to which by a 

 coat of white-wash he gave the appearance of a finished building. 

 At dawn of day, Kan Ya'za' gyee, the elder brother, seeing the other's 

 being completed, collected his troops and followers, and came down 

 the Erawadi. He then ascended the Khyendwen, and established him- 

 self for six months at Kule\ Toungnyo, calling it Ydzdgyo, and sent 

 his son Moodootseitta to be king over the Thoonaparan Pyoos, 

 Kanyan, and Thet, who then occupied the territory between Pegu, 

 Arracan, and Pagan, and had applied to him for a prince. Kan Ya'z'a- 

 gyee then built the city Kyouk padoung to the east of the Guttshapa 

 nadee, and resided there for 24 years. From thence he went and 

 took possession of the city of Diniawadee, or Arracan, which had origi- 

 nally been founded by a king Mayayoo, and having constructed forti- 

 fications, a palace, &c. took up his residence there. 



* Kauthala, (Kosala) Dr. Wilson considers to be the same as the present 

 territory of Oude. Some of the Burmese consider Pinjalarit to have been a 

 kingdom in the Punjab. 



f See No. 20 of the Journal of the Asiatic Society for an account of the 

 origin of the Shdkya race, which the Burmese call Thdki and Thakya Thaki. 



X Kule is a territory to the southward of Manipur. 



