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born white cocks in this place, and here we came at night to roost. 

 Hereafter my relics will be enshrined here and worshipped." 



After stating that the Pagodas were not built in the days of 

 Dwattaboung, the founder of Prome, A. C. 413, the history passes 

 to Dammasoka. " In the sacred era 223 [A. C. 320], Dammasoka, 

 the universal monarch, residing at Palibrotha, having obtained the 

 relics, called up the rulers of eighty-four thousand countries and 

 provinces, and gave to each eight portions of the relics, com- 

 manding them to return and enshrine them in their respective 

 countries, building over them Pagodas, and digging wells and tanka 

 in their vicinity. The Toungoo chiefs took their relics and built 

 four Pagodas over them in the places previously mentioned by 

 Gaudama." 



From Asoka the history passes abruptly to Narapadiesethu king 

 of Pagan, whose classic name is here given Tampadiepa* country. 

 He descended the Irrawaddy A. D. 1191, and guided by astrological 

 prognostications, came up the Sitang to the Toungoo Pagodas, 

 which being in ruins he repaired them, and on leaving, appointed 

 one of his ministers, Nandathurieyaf governor of the country, 

 who made KampamyenJ, on the Sitang in the north part of the 

 province, the sent of his govern ment. He was succeeded at his 

 death by Men Hlazo § of whom nothing is said, but that his son 

 Thawonlenkya|| ruled after him. Thawonlenkya, changed his capital 

 and settled on the north side of Htswa creek, twenty or thirty 

 miles north of the present Toungoo. Here he founded a city which 

 he called Kya-khat-wara,^]" where people gathered to him in great 



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