12 A Sketch of Toungoo History. [No. 1. 



numbers from every direction. Warieyu,* king of Martaban, 

 came up, destroyed the city, and carried away the ruler and his 

 family to the town of Thu, between Shwegyen and Sitang. This 

 event is placed A. D. 1256. According to Talaing history, this 

 king there called Wareyo, did not come to the throne till A. D. 

 1281. The same king appears, though not by name, in the 

 * Inscription on the great bell brought from Aracan,f according 

 to which he did not ascend the throne of Pegu till A. D. 1370 ; but 

 the same event in the history of Martaban is placed in 1289. If 

 the bell inscription be asumed as the most correct, then Toungoo 

 history must be out a whole century or more. 



While in captivity, Thawonlenkya had two sons born unto him, 

 the great ThawonJ and the little Thawon ; and when about to die, 

 he charged his sons, saying, " This is not our country but B,amey, 

 go to Zeynwatana. If you wish to be good men, go up the river 

 Athawatie Poung-loung,§ and follow up Khaboung creek till you 

 reach a small mountain spur [Toungoo]. "|| In accordance with 

 their father's instructions, after his death, they came up the river 

 Sitang and established themselves at the place indicated, A. D. 1278. 



Another character is now introduced. A teacher at the town of 

 the H tiding, said to one of his pupils, Karen-ba, " If you go south 

 you will become a good man." He went south, and after remaining 

 some time at Kentha, finally removed, and took up his abode in the 

 south-east of Kaylen, naming the place the Karen city. Tradition 

 says that this man was a Karen, his name which signifies " Karen- 

 father," and his founding a city, called " Karen city," confirms the 



* 6l8$) In Taking history OCG|C£p 



t Journal of A. S. of Bengal, April 1833. The translator places the event in 

 1622 by omitting a figure in the date, and changing the era. The text says in 



the sacred era 1913 [oDDCOSDCOoSoGO^OgC j but the translator 



drops the first figure, and then renders it as the vulgar era. 



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§ 93loODOc8col(SsGCO0cS i. e. the Sitang. 



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