1844.] On the History of Arakan. 3.5 



The queen of the Ma-ra-yu dynasty there joins him, and he marries 

 her two daughters ; he remains on this mountain for twenty four years 

 before he ventures to descend to the plains, which during that period 

 remained subject to usurpers ; at length he comes and makes Dhi-ngya- 

 wa-ti, his capital ; this is called the second dynasty of that city. This 

 conquest appears to be a second irruption of the people from whom 

 the Arakanese themselves were descended, or perhaps of a mixed horde 

 of Myam-mas and Shans. Kan- Ra- dza-gyi is succeeded by his son 

 Thi-la>ra-dza. Of this dynasty twenty-eight kings reign in succes- 

 sion, throughout a period of 971 years. By this chronology Kan-ra- 

 dza-gyi, crossed the yu-ma mountains b. c. 825. 



At the end of this period Tsan-da Thu-ri-ya ascends the throne. 

 In his time the Bridhi Gautama, " blossoms" in the country called 

 Ka-pi-la-wot ; while lodging in the Dze-da-won Kyoung or monastery 

 in Tha-wot-ti* he is invited to Arakan by the king. Gautama arrives, 

 and relates his various forms and existences during previous births in 

 Arakan, and points out the Pagodas which contain relics of himself. 

 He is received by the king with the reverence due to so exalted a per- 

 sonage. An image, being an exact resemblance of the Bridh, was per- 

 mitted to be cast, and was set up at Ma-ha-mu-ni, where a temple 

 was built for its reception, the ruins of which still exist. This image, 

 to which miraculous powers were attributed, remained at Maha-mu-ni 

 until carried by the Burmese to Ava, where it still remains. The Lord 

 Gautama then confirmed the name of Dhu-ngeja- wa-ti given to the 

 country by former Budhs in consequence of its great fertility ; and 

 leaving Arakan proper travelled southward to the town of Than-dwai 

 from whence he went eastward to the city of Prome. The king Tsan- 

 da Thu-ri'ya, died after a glorious reign of fifty-two years, f This 

 king is generally reckoned as the head of a new dynasty, since the re- 

 ligion of Gautama was introduced during his reign; of this dynasty 

 there reigned in lineal succession twenty-five sovereigns (making fifty- 

 two from Kan- Ra- dza-gyi) throughout a period of 642 years. 



* Name of a district or city in Hindoostan, (Sravasti in Kosala.) 

 f The list of Arakan kings given in the historical and statistical sketch of Arakan 

 by Mr. Paton, published in the 16th Vol. of the Asiatic Researches, commences from 

 this sovereign. The chronology of the history I possess differs considerably from that ; 

 according to Mr. Paton Tsanda Thu-re-ya died a. d. 701 ; according to Nga-m's his- 

 tory a. d. 198. 



