28 On the History of Arakan. [No. 145. 



Budh Gau-ta-ma, in an embryo state ; in a subsequent birth, he became 

 Man-dat Meng, or sovereign of the Sekyah system ; he is therefore 

 now allotted this title in anticipation ; while king of Ba-ra-na-thi, he 

 had four sons, among whom he divided the world. To the eldest 

 Thu-ri-ya Thau-da he gave the central portion and the city Pa-ta- 

 na-go ; to the second, Tsan-da-than-da, the northern portion and the 

 city of Pin-tsa-pu-ra ; to the third son, Ma-ni-thu-bha-was, he gave 

 the southern portion and the city of Randa-pu-ra ; to the fourth son, 

 Kan-myeng, were allowed all the countries inhabited by the Burman, 

 Shan, and Malay races from Ka-thi (Munnipur,) to the borders of 

 China. 



Kan-myeng came to Ramma-wa-ti, and dispossessing the descen- 

 dant of Tha-mu-ti-de-wa, married a princess of that race named Thu- 

 wan-na-ga-hlya ; while Maha-ra-dza-ngya, the male descendant of 

 Tha-mu-ti-de-wa, was sent to govern the city of Wetha-ti in Arakan 

 Proper. " We-ra-khaings," says the historian, "had from the first, 

 from the time of Tha-mu-ti-de-wa, been in possession of Ram-ma- 

 wa-ti ;" yet he next proceeds to narrate how king Kan-myeng peopled 

 his dominions with various tribes, and among the rest, appear the pro- 

 genitors of the Arakanese, as being now brought to the country for 

 the first time ; in short, the attempt to reconcile national traditions with 

 the Budhist writings, has produced inextricable confusion. 



Kan-myeng collecting men from different countries of the west, 

 (Hindustan,) having a variety of languages, brought them to Ram-ma- 

 wa-ti ; they then asking for subsistence and a place to live in, to the 

 first who so applied he gave the name of " Thek* and their language 

 being different from the rest, they lived separate. The king then 

 assigns names to the rest of his followers, (a far-fetched etymology 

 being given for each of them,) who became the progenitors of the 

 various Indo-Chinese tribes and nations. The names of the tribes 

 after " Thek" are as follows : Khyeng,f My*,\ or Myu-khan-tsaung- 



* This is a small tribe living among the hills in Arakan Proper ; they are described 

 in an " Account of Arakan" in the Jour. Asiat. Soc. for 1841, p. 683, under the name 

 Doing-nak. 



f A tribe living amidst the Yu-ma mountains. 



% A tribe now nearly extinct, formerly living on the Kula-dan river in Arakan Pro- 

 per, on the present possessions of the. Ka-mis, with whom they are confounded by the 

 modern Arakanese. 



