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On the history of the JBurmah Race. 



[No. L 



Each selected a hill on which to erect a building. The elder brother 

 commenced his building with heavy timbers and bamboos. The 

 younger brother commenced with light timbers and covered it with 

 white cloth and plaster, so it was finished in one night. In the morn- 

 ing when the elder brother saw that he had lost, he collected his 

 followers and went down the Irrawaddy river. He then ascended the 

 Tha-la-watee or Kliyen-dween river, and established himself at Ka-U 

 doung* At that time the tribes called Byoo ham yan and Thek 

 asked for a king, and the Prince made his son Moo-doo-tseit-ta king 

 over the Byoo tribe, " Kan Badza gyee went westward and establish- 

 ed himself on the mountain called Kyoulc pan toungf east of the 

 river Gits-tsha-hd. He then became king of the country." 



Kan Badza ngay reigned in Tagoung the country of his father. 

 He had thirty-one descendants who reigned successively in Tagoung. 

 In the time of Bliein-na-M the last king of that race, Chinese and 

 Tartars from Gan-da-la-reet Province, in the country of Tsem, in- 

 vaded the kingdom. The king was obliged to retire with his army 

 to the Ma-le hliyoungX where he died. From thence his force was 

 divided into three parts ; one went eastward and established the 

 nineteen Shan states ; another division w T ent down the Irrawaddy 

 river and remained in the country of the Byoohan-ran and Thek 

 tribes where the Tha-Jcee Prince Moo-doo-Tseit-ta had formerly 

 established himself in Thoo-na-pa-ran-ta. A portion remained in Ma- 

 le with the chief Queen Na-ga-tsliein. 



At this time Gautama appeared in Mitz-tsee-ma-detha. The king 

 of Tha-ivat-tee, Ba-the-na-dee, Kau-tha-la, demanded a daughter in 

 marriage from MaM-na-rna§ king of Kap-pi-la-ivot. The king did 

 not give him a pure daughter, but one born from a slave girl and 

 named Wa-tha-bJia-Khat-ti-ya. She gave birth to a son named Wee- 

 ta-tlioo-pa, When he had grown up, he went to see his relations in 

 Kap -pi-la- wot. As they insulted him on account of his inferior birth 

 he determined on revenge. After his father's death he thrice led his 

 armies against Kap -pi-la-wot but was restrained by the expostulations 



* This lies west of the Khyeng-dwen in about 23° N. L. 



f This is a mountain in the northern part of Arakan. The story here 

 related is found also in the history of Arakan. Vide Journal Asiatic Society, 

 Vol. XIII. p. 34. 



X Male is on the Irrawaddy river, about eighty miles above Amerapoora. 



§ It is presumed that after the death of Thoo-dau-dana the father of Bucllia 

 Gautama : Maha-na-nia one of the same family succeeded to the throne. 



