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marriage to U-ba~tha-ga-ya ; if female children are born, they are to 

 be spared, but if males to be destroyed. The princess first bears a 

 daughter who dies young ; then ten sons in succession, whose lives are 

 preserved by an artifice, and last, another daughter. The two eldest 

 sons are named Wa-thu-de-wa and Ba-lade-wa ; the daughter Eng- 

 tsa-na-de-wi. The subsequent story refers principally to these three. 



The ten sons grow to man's estate without the real history of their 

 birth being known ; they grievously oppress the people of the country, 

 till at length complaints are made to the king ; he orders them to be 

 seized, but they elude their pursuers and fly to a distant country, 

 where through the favour of a great sage and devotee, they obtain 

 magical weapons from the Nats; they then return, attack the king's 

 palace, and kill both him and his brother. Thus they become mas- 

 ters of A-thet-teng-tsa-na. Next they attack the neighbouring coun- 

 tries, and having conquered A-yudz-dza-pu-ra, or Siam, turn their 

 arms against Dwa-ya-wa-ti, the Pali name for the present town of 

 Than-dwai (Sandoway), which was then ruled by Na-rin-da, a king 

 of the race of Kan-myeng. 



Arriving by sea at the mouth of the Than-dtvai river, they are foil- 

 ed in their attempts to find the city, which by some is said to have 

 the power of soaring above the earth, out of reach of danger, and by 

 others this is said to have been an illusion produced by its guardian 

 Bhi-hi. By the advice of a Ya-the, or hermit, the brothers propitiate 

 the Bhi-hi with offerings, and she then withdraws her protection ; the 

 ten brothers now bind the city with an iron chain to the earth, from 

 which circumstance the present name Than-dwai (iron bound) is de- 

 duced. The city then falls into the hands of the invaders. 



The brothers divided their conquest into ten shares, but made Than- 

 dwai their chief capital. After sometime the eight younger brothers 

 are slain in a conflict with the people of the country, who appear to 

 have risen against them ; Wa-tha-de-wa and Ba-la-de-wa, with their 

 sister Eng-dza-na-de-wi, are obliged to fly ; they are accompanied in 

 their flight by a Pun-na, or Brahman, who now appears for the first 

 time. 



These four direct their flight Northwards : arrived at a forest in the 

 present circle of Toung-up, they meet with a Bhilu, who has assumed 

 the appearance of a man. This is king Keng-tha who comes to revenge 



