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" I send you a fair version, which some Burmese at Calcutta and 

 I have succeeded in making out of the facsimile of the inscription on 

 the small Arracan hell. We have been obliged to guess one or two 

 words. I send you also a translation of the Burmese, from which 

 you will see that the inscription, like most Burmese inscriptions, con* 

 tains nothing of any historical interest. — H. B. 



Ti-anslation, 

 Be victorious or accomplished 1 ! After the period when the sovereign 

 of the nats, the king of kings, the chief of the saints, the most beautiful 

 in appearance, on whom the eyes of the whole world rest, the pinnacle of 

 the three orders of rational beings 2 , and the lord of righteousness, had 

 administered the delicious and relief-giving medicine, the moral law, to all 

 sentient beings who are long immersed in the four streams or currents 3 , 

 and had proceeded to enjoy the state of Maibban, Maung Mhat and his 

 wife, having come to existence in the time of (Gaudama's) religion which 

 is most difficult to meet with 4 , possessing minds properly and sincerely 

 disposed, imbued with true wisdom, taking delight in virtue, piety, cha- 

 rity, and the other duties of good men, and established in proper principles, 

 made an offering, taking the whole earth and water to witness, of this 

 bell weighing 9,230,000 5 , to the Muha Zedi pagoda, which is situated 

 in the place called the great city of Diniawadi (Arracan J, and in which 

 are collected and rest the sacred relics (of Gaupama), that are complete 

 in the united streams of fire and water, the six-colored flames of light 

 and other miraculous exhibitions 6 . May the merit of this charitable gift 

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