404 Description of Pirgan in Ava. [July, 



" The Chinese continued the pursuit until they reached Taroup* 

 maur, but their army, owing to the great distance which it had march- 

 ed, and its great numbers, began to experience a scarcity of provisions ; 

 and was induced to turn back from that place. 



" In the Burmese year 646 (A. D. 1284), two pat or quarters 

 wanting to complete the 27th lunar asterism, the king Naratheeha- 

 pade fled in fear of the Chinese. Hence he is styled Tarovp-pye-men, 

 the king who fled from the Chinese." 



After remaining five months at Bassien, the king, hearing that 

 the Chinese had retreated from Pugan, made arrangements for return- 

 ing thither. On his way up the river, it is recorded on one occasion, 

 his cooks having been able to serve him up a dinner of only 150 

 dishes, instead of the 300, to which he had always sat down every 

 day, he covered his face with his hands and wept, saying, ■ I am 

 become a poor man.' Shortly after on his arrival off Prome, he was 

 poisoned by his own son, the governor of that place. 



The building at Pugan, which Marco Polo calls ' a sepulchre of 

 the king,' must have been one of the large Buddhist temples, contain- 

 ing some relics of Gaudama. The body of a deceased king of Ava is 

 usually burnt within the palace enclosed, and the bones and relics 

 carefully collected in some vessel, and thrown into the Irawddi river. 



Like the early kings of England, named Rufus, Beauclerk, Lack' 

 land, Longshanks, &c, most of the Burmese kings are distinguished 

 by some sobriquet or particular appellation. A king, Narathu, who 

 was killed by some Kulas or natives of India from Chittagong, about 

 the year 1171, is styled Kula-gya-men, the king who fell or was killed 

 by Kulas. Another of Toungu or Toungugu, who was taken pri- 

 soner and carried away from Toungugu to Syriam, by the celebrated 

 Portugueze chief, Philip De Brito and Nicote, about the year 1612, 

 called Kula-ya-men, the king whom the Kulas obtained or seized, See 

 Modern Universal History, vol. 7th, page 118. 



In the sketch i of the remains of Pugan, the large pagoda on the 

 proper right, is called Ananda ; it was built by a king Kyan-zeet-tha, 

 who reigned between A. D. 1064 and 1093, and was repaired by the 

 father of the present king of Ava, in 1795, when Captain Symes visi- 

 ted the place. The pagoda on the high point of land, wasted by the 

 river, is called Langa Nanda ; it was built by Anauratha zan, who 

 reigned between A. D. 1017 and 1059. 



* Chinese Point, the same as Symes's Tirroup-mion. 



t We regret extremely that the number of plates in the present No. precludes 

 the admission of the sketch to which the author alludes.— Ed. 



