1836.] with Deva-ndgari Inscriptions at Tagoung. 163 



until he overtook and killed it near Prome ; and then finding himself 

 so far from home, he determined on remaining where he was as a 

 hermit. Here he was joined hy two of his nephews, named Maha 

 Thambawa and Tsula Thambawa, twins borne by his sister the 

 queen of Tagoung, but being blind, the father had insisted upon their 

 being put to death. The mother, after secreting them for some time, 

 placed them at last on a raft, and set them afloat on the Erawadi. 

 The Royal Chronicles give an interesting account of the voyage of 

 the two Princes, who are cured of their blindness by a monster at 

 Tsagain*, and who at length reach the country near Prome, and are 

 recognized and received by their uncle. The Kanyan and Pyiis had 

 quarrelled after the people of Arracan had carried off their king, but 

 the former, being victorious, settled themselves near Prome under their 

 queen Nan Khan, whilst the Kanyans retired, and established them- 

 selves at Sandoway and on the borders of Arracan. Through the 

 recommendation of the hermit Prince of Tagoung, the queen Nan 

 Khan married one of his nephews Maha Thambawa, who became 

 king of the Pyiis, and established the Prome or Thare Khettara empire, 

 60 years after Gaudama's death, 484 B. C. 



After the destruction of the Prome Empire, a king Thamauddarit, 

 nephew of the last king of Prome, founded Pagan ; but the country 

 being much molested by certain wild animals, a young man named 

 Tsaudi' destroyed them, and the king gave him his daughter in 

 marriage, and appointed him his successor. He declined the throne 

 however in the first instance, and placed his old teacher Yat'the- 

 gya'ung upon it ; and on the death of the latter, the young man 

 ascended the throne of Pagan in the Pagan era 89, A. D. 167, with 

 the title of Pyu' tsaudi'. But this Pyu' tsaudi', or third king of Pagan 

 also is said to have been of the Tagoung royal race, and a Thdki Prince. 

 His father, Thado Adaittsa Ya'za', was lineally descended from the 

 1 7th king of Tagoung, Thado Maha Ya'za', but during his reign 

 Tagoung having again been destroyed by evil spirits and monsters, as 

 well as by the Chinese and Tartars, he had quitted the country, and 

 settled with his family in a private capacity at Mali, supporting him- 

 self as a gardener. After receiving a suitable education, the son Pyu' 

 Tsaudi came down to Pagdn, in order to seek his fortune, and then 

 distinguished himself by killing the wild animals as before-mentioned. 



No further mention of Tagoung can I find in the Royal Chronicles, 

 until we come to the 6th vol., in which, after being told that a daugh- 

 ter of Athenkhaya, the founder of Tsagain, was married to Thado 

 tshen-dein, of the Tagoung royal race, and had a son named Yahu'la, 



* City directly opposite Ava. 

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