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On the history of the Burmah Mace. 



[No. 1, 



athen-khye, being a period represented by a unit and one hundred and 

 forty cyphers. He had twenty-eight successors who reigned in the 

 countries of Malta and Kotha ivattee. The next dynasty which num- 

 bered fifty-six kings reigned in Ayooz-za-poora. The next of sixty 

 kings reigned in Bara-na-thee or Benares. Then eighty-four thousand 

 kings reigned in Kap-pi-la the native country of Gautama, in distant 

 after times. Next thirty-six kings reigned in Hat-li-poora. Numer- 

 ous other dynasties are mentioned which are represented as established 

 in various countries of India, and as lasting for many millions of years, 

 The first king after Maha-tha-ma-dd whose history is brought in as 

 directly connected with subsequent events, is Auk-M-kareet king of 

 Bara-na-thee or Benares. It is related that this king had five queens. 

 The eldest named Kat-ta had four sons and five daughters. Having 

 given birth to these children Rat-ta died. The king then married a 

 young Princess who gave birth to a son named Bzandoo. The king 

 highly pleased, promised to confer any favour on the young queen 

 which she might ask. Prompted by her own kindred, she asked that 

 her son might be declared heir to the throne. After much entreaty, 

 the king consented, and calling his sons and daughters, gave them a 

 retinue of followers, with elephants and horses, and they went forth 

 to establish a country, and search for a place to build a city. 



At this time the embryo of Gautama Bhra, a wealthy Kap-pi-la 

 Brahman, having abandoned his house, had become a hermit in a teak 

 forest* in the Himalaya jungles or mountains. In the Bad-sa- Weng* 

 gyee, it is called an En-gyeen forest. There the hermit had built his 

 lodge. The Princes came to the place in search of a site for a city. 

 The hermit foresaw that a city built there, would, in after time, be of 

 great fame in Bzam-hu-dee-pa, the world of man, and advised them to 

 build their city there and to call it Kap-pi-U-wot.-t Then the Princes 

 consulted together saying - There are with us no king's daughters of 

 our own race, nor are there any king's sons for our sisters ; if marriages 

 are made with other races the children become impure ; in order to 

 preserve our race, let us put aside our eldest sister as a mother,* and 

 we four marry our four younger sisters." It was done so. From that 



Sal o* of TeS^e? r mSl S T S 5 whet , herthe ^ ™ Question consisted f 

 feal or ol leak tiees He Imally decides m favour of the teak as the more dignifi- 

 ed tree of the two but appears to hare come to a wrong conclusion g 

 t This appears o signify << the Kap-pida Brahman's place of regions duty 

 I In Burma to Ins day the king's eldest daughter is not given inSSat 

 remains unmarried at least during the life of her parents. marriage, but 



