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On the history of the JBurmah Race. 



[No. I, 





country of Mau-re-ya was attacked and subdued. The queen being 

 pregnant fled to the country of Pa-ti-U-poot, and there gave birth to 

 a son. The child was put in an earthen vessel and placed near a cow 

 enclosure. The cowherd found him and brought him up with his own 

 children. A friend of the cowherd, a hunter, loved the child and 

 asked for him. The child then was made over to the hunter. He 

 displayed great power and ability, and the Brahman Dza-neJc-Jca hear- 

 ing thereof gained possession of him from the hunter. The Brahman 

 brought him up until he was full grown. He was named Tsan-da- 

 got-ta. By an artifice Tsan-da-got-ta was induced to murder prince 

 Pap-pa-ta. Tsan-da-got-ta then under the influence of Dza-neJc-Jca 

 gradually collected forces, attacked villages, and at last expelled king 

 Da-na-nan-da from Pa-ti-li-poot» 



Tsan-da-got-ta then was consecrated king, He had a son born to 

 him who was named Bein-du-tlia-ya. Tsan-da-got-ta died after a reign 

 of 24 years in the year of religion 186 = B. C. 357. 



His son Bein-doo-tha-ya married a princess of the Mau-re-ya race, 

 who gave birth to Dhnm-ma-thau-Tca. This Prince appears to have 

 murdered all his father's sons by other mothers than his own. Bein- 

 doo-tha-ya either died naturally or was murdered in 214 of religion. 



Bhaw-ma-tJiau-Jca attended to the internal affairs of the country 

 for four years before he was crowned, and in the year 218* of religion 

 he received the abeit tJieit. His brother Tei-iha he appointed Crown 

 Prince Four years after being consecrated as king, he sincerely enter- 

 ed religion. The history of Dham-ma-thau-ka as the great supporter 

 of Budhism, the founder and encourager of missions, is narrated at 

 considerable length. He discovered and opened the under-ground 

 building in which the relics of Gautama had been deposited by A-dza- 

 ta-that ; he took them out and distributed them. In the year 234f of 

 religion, he assembled the third general council presided over by 

 Mang-ga-lee-poot-ta-tee-tha-tay and consisting of one thousand selected 

 Rahans. He then turned his attention to the great object of esta- 

 blishing religion all over the world or in all countries contiguous to 



* B. 0. 325. On this subject see Cunningham's Bhilsa topes, page 74. 

 He applies a correction of sixty-six years to this Buddhistical date, and gives 

 good reason for doing so. 



f B. C. 309. This is not the date of the third general council as given in 

 Cunningham's Bhilsa topes, page 116, and to which the correction must be 

 applied. 



