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into a forest, under pretence of worshipping the mountain Nat, and 

 there killed him with an arrow. 



The Pyu sovereign who reigned at Prome, hearing of these transac- 

 tions, invaded the kingdom to expel the Myu chief, but lost his army 

 in the Yu-ma mountains, and was obliged to retreat. The king A-mya- 

 died after a reign of seven years ; on his death, his nephew Pe-byu 

 married the queen Tsauda-de-wi in the month of Pya-tho 326. 



The city We-tha-li was now abandoned, and the king established 

 his residence on the site of the present city of Arakan, then called 

 Myouk-a. After Pe-byu, had reigned twelve years, the country was 

 invaded by a Shan prince called Thoa-kheng-bhwa-kye, who took the 

 royal city, and despoiled the Maha-mu-ni temple of its gold ornaments. 

 The king and queen fled to a hill in the upper course of the Yo 

 stream, and there remained concealed. These events occurred in the 

 year 338. 



For eighteen years from this time the country remained subject to 

 the invaders, and the annalists record no events. The Taloyings are 

 said to have possessed Thau-divoi during the period. At length the 

 Shan's army retreated, carrying away a number of prisoners, who are 

 said to have been settled at Tsa-kaing, near the present city of Ava. 



Soon after the Pug-gan king Anaw-rahta-dzan, who appears at 

 this time to have been supreme in the present Burman empire, invaded 

 Arakan, for the purpose of carrying away the celebrated image of 

 Gaw-ta-ma from Maha-mu-ni, but retired without effecting his object. 



After these protracted troubles there appeared a son of the king 

 Tsu-la-taing Tsa-da-ya ; he was born six months after that king's 

 departure for China, and is represented to have remained concealed 

 among the Theh tribe, in the hills on the upper course of the river 

 Ma-yu. He is called Nga Meng-nga-tum ; with the help of the Thek 

 tribe, he ascended the throne in the year 356 and established his capi- 

 tal at Tsam-bha-wet, on the river Le-myu. The kingdom was again 

 invaded by the Pug-gan king, and Nga-meng -nga- turn was killed after 

 a reign of twenty-four years. 



The queen of Tsu-la-taing Tsa-da-ya, was still living on the Yo 

 river ; some years before, on the death of the Myu chief Pe-byu, she 

 had married a nephew of her first husband, named Tsan-da-hu. This 

 marriage produced two sons, namely Khet-ta-theng, and Tsan-da- 



