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the murder committed upon him in his previous existence. He in- 

 vites them to wrestle, and the challenge is accepted by Ba-la-de-wa 

 who is soon killed and eaten by the Bhi-lu. The three others pursue 

 their journey ; Wa-thu-de-wa is accidentally killed by a dart thrown 

 by a hunter at the moving grass, where he supposes an animal is con- 

 cealed ; from thence the Pun-na and the Princess Eng-dzana-de-wi 

 go on together ; most of the names of places on the coast are derived 

 from incidents occurring to them during this journey. They continue 

 on until they arrive at We-tha-li, the chief city of Arakan proper, and 

 the remains of which still exist. They find the race of kings des- 

 cended from Ma-ha-ra-dza-ngya is extinct ; the people of the country 

 elevate the Pun-na to the throne ; he is married to the Princess Eng- 

 dza-na-de-wi, and after a long and prosperous reign, their son 

 Brahma Thun-da-re succeeds ; he marries a Princess of the former 

 dynasty, named The-rin-pa-re, and their descendants fill the throne 

 for an indefinite period. During the time of this dynasty, ninety-nine 

 cities were built or Townships established to the East, and ninety-nine 

 to the West, of the Ga-tsha-bha, the chief river of Arakan. 



The story of the ten brothers, sons of a northern prince by a Talo- 

 ing Princess, coming into Arakan, seems to refer to the first arrival of 

 the Myam-ma race from the Eastward, and must be derived from 

 genuine tradition. The tale of the Pun-na, or Brahman, is of course 

 an interpolation of later times, though it is not easy to understand 

 why a Budhist nation should invent this fable, and represent a Brah- 

 man as the progenitor of one of their dynasties. All the names given 

 to these personages it will be remarked are Pali ; indeed Native names 

 for kings and great persons do not appear in the history until a very 

 late period. 



In the latter times of the Pun-na race, there lived together in the 

 Hi-ma-won-da,* a monkey and a deer. A violent storm arising they 

 were carried away by a flood, and at length floated to the head of the 

 Ga-tsha-bha, or Kula-dan, river, and from thence to Khouk-taw-toung, 

 a hill on the bank of that stream. There the monkey and deer entered 

 the forest and lived. The deer produced thirty- two children; some 



* An immense but imaginary forest, in which most of the wonderful things men- 

 tioned in the Budhist scriptures are said to be. (Judson.) 



