1837.] Bells now in Upper India. 1071 



go to the tical, and the weight of the bell will then be 76,916 ticals, 6 mus and 

 5 yues. 



6 Gaudama's body displayed many miraculous appearances. He could, 

 whenever he pleased, exhibit a stream of water from one nostril, eye, ear, hand, 

 or foot, and a stream of fire from the other — and six streams of different colored 

 glory were emitted from his body. 



7 According to the Burmese the merit of a good deed may be participated by 

 others, and particularly by those who praise or encourage the performer of it by 

 exclaiming thadu, well done. 



8 The Hindu chakri is the Burmese tsahya, or celestial weapon. 



9 The Tshaddan elephant is now the usual title of the white elephant, which, 

 in ancient times, when there existed, it is said, ten different species of the 

 animal, was the king or of the first class. Six-colored streams of light issued 

 from its tusks also, whence tsha-dant or is had dan, as my poor unfortunate 

 friend, the late Myawadi Wungyih, informed me. 



10 The thirty-one different abodes or stages of existence, according to the 

 Buddhists, have been described by Dr. Buchanan and other writers on their 

 religion. 



11 A person, according to the Buddhists, cannot attain Naibban or be per- 

 fected into a Buddh but from a state of existence as man — hence, all Buddhists, 

 and particularly the women, pray that their future existence may be in the 

 superior grade of man. 



12 The ten evil works are 1, murder; 2, theft ; 3, adultery ; 4, lying; 5, 

 speaking so as to destroy the affection entertained by two persons for each 

 other ; 6, speaking harshly or using abusive language ; 7, frivolous or idle 

 conversation ; 8, coveting the property of others ; 9, thinking of injuring others ; 

 10, apostacy. 



13 The ten good works are 1, charity ; 2, keeping the five Buddhist com- 

 mandments not to kill, steal, commit adultery, use intoxicating substances or 

 tell falsehoods ; 3, repeating certain short sentences calculated to restrain evil 

 desires and promote abstraction and indifference to this life ; 4, reverence for 

 Buddh, his precepts and disciples, and for one's parents and teachers ; 5, per- 

 forming the services due to the same ; 6, distributing the merit of one's good 

 actions among other beings ; 7, pleased with, and exclaiming thadu, or well done, 

 at the good works of others ; 8, hearing Gaudama's religious precepts recited; 

 9, preaching or communicating a knowledge of the same to others ; 10, firm- 

 ness in religious faith. 



14 The Myenmo Mount is here poetically alluded to. From the four cardinal 

 points of this centre of the Buddhist world to the wall surrounding it, the space 

 is equally divided by four different colors, red, green, yellow and white. In the 

 green space is situated the southern island or Tsabu-depa. 



15 The present Burmese sera which commenced A. D. 638. 



The number of the year is so given in the verse, that it was at first supposed 

 to be 1118 or 1756, but that date was 27 years before Arracan was conquered or 

 Amarapura built by Mendaragyih, king of Ava. Further examination with 

 Burmese satisfied me that the year is 1180 or 1818. 

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