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theng ; also a daughter Ge-ri-kuma-ri. The eldest son married his 

 own sister, (a common practice in ancient times with the Arakanese 

 and Burmese royal families) and with the assistance of Anaw-ra-hta- 

 dwza, king of Pug-gan, ascended the throne in the year 380. He es- 

 tablished his capital at Ping-tsa, and died after a reign of ten years. 

 His younger brother Tsan-da- theng succeeded him in the year 390. 

 Four of his descendants reigned in succession ; in the reign of the 

 fifth, named Meng-phyu-gyi, a noble usurped the throne in the year 

 422 ; another noble deposed him, but in the year 423, the son of 

 Meng-phyu-gyi, named Meng-nan-thu, ascended the throne and 

 reigned five years. 



The third in descent from him, Meng Bhi-lu, was slain by a rebel- 

 lious noble named Theng-kha-ya, who usurped the throne in the year 

 440. 



The heir apparent, Meng-re-bha-ya, escaped to the court of 

 Kyan-tsittha king of Pug-gan. 



The usurper reigned 14 years ; his son Mevg-than succeeded him in 

 the year 454, and reigned eight years ; on his death, his son Meng' 

 Padi ascended the throne. 



During this period, the rightful heir to the throne, Meng-re-bha.ga 

 was residing unnoticed at Pug-gan; he had married his own sister 

 Tsau-pouk-ngyo, and there was born to them a son, named Let-ya- 

 meng-nan. The exiled king died without being able to procure as- 

 sistance from the Pug-gan court for the recovery of his throne. At 

 length the king of that country, A-laung-tsi-thu, grandson of Kyan- 

 UiUiha sent an army of 1,00,000 Py-us and 1,00,000 Talaings to 

 place Let-ya-meng.nan upon the throne. This army marched in the 

 year 464 ; after one repulse the usurper Meng.Pa-di was slain, and 

 Let-ya-meng.nan restored to the throne of his ancestors in the month 

 Nat-dau 465.* 



* A Burmese inscription on a stone discovered at Budha Gaya, a facsimile and 

 translation of which by Colonel Burney, are given in the 20th Vol. of the Asiatic 

 Researches, serves to confirm the account given in this history, of the restoration of 

 Let-ya-men%-nan, or as he is called in the stone inscription, Pyu-ta-thin-meng, i.e. 

 «' Lord of a hundred thousand Pyus." The dates of the inscription which were con- 

 sidered uncertain, are no doubt meant to be 467 and 468, approximating as these do 

 to the date assigned in the Arakan history for the restoration of Let-ya-meng-nan. 

 It is evident from the tenor both of the history and the inscription, that the Arakan 

 prince was regarded as a dependent of the Pug-gan king, to whom he had from his 



birth 



