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On the History of Arakan. 



[No. 145. 



tion. 2d Discrepancies arise from evident misprints in Mr. Paton's list. 3d Different 

 names are applied to the same individuals among the later Arakanese kings. 



After the time of Meng Tsau-mwun when they became for a time tributary to Ben- 

 gal, and later still when they ruled over the present Chittagong district, they assumed 

 foreign names, and their Bengal subjects distinguished them by Indian names and tit- 

 les, which are now frequently applied to them, though the same Indian names are not 

 always applied to the same individual kings, even by the best informed among the 

 Arakanese. Hence arises confusion, the dates in Mr. Paton's list refer to the death or 

 deposition of the sovereigns opposite to whose names they are placed, the dates in the 

 foregoing list refer to the accession of each sovereign. As an illustration of these re- 

 marks, I here subjoin a comparison of a few of the names from the two tables. 



Paton's list. 



Same as. 



Remarks. 



74. Ju.mu.wai, 



75. Mong Bhung Raja. 



76. Alikhang, . ... 



77. Kala shama, .... 



78. Jaru, 



79. Manikra Bong, 



Meng.tsau.mwun, 



Meng.kha.ri, 



Ba.tsau.phya, 

 Dau.lya, 

 Ba.tsau.ngyo, 

 Ran.oung, . 



No. 1, of the dynasty of Myouk-au. In 

 this name Meng is an honorary pre- 

 fix. Tsau-mwun if written according 

 to the pronunciation of Arakan proper 

 would be Cho-ma-in or Cho-mwa-in, 

 for which Jumuwai is evidently in- 

 tended. 



This is the name of the king of A va who 

 deposed Tsau.mwun ; and the period 

 of whose deposition I have marked as 

 an interregnum. 



Ali kheng, is the foreign name given to 

 this king, khang is the Arakanese 

 pronuciation of kheng. 



Kalamasha is the foreign name of this 

 king. 



No. 4, of the above list, is omitted in 

 Mr. P's. table. 



I cannot satisfactorily account for the 

 difference in these names. 



These names refer to the same indivi- 

 dual, Manik in Mr. P's. list is a mis- 

 print for Meng the honorary title, ra 

 is for Ran; Bong is an error in copy- 

 ing for oung, as the Burmese letters 

 are easily mistaken. There is no 

 use pursuing this comparison fur- 

 ther. 



