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heavenly voices proclaimed the king's righteousness, yet the holy relic 

 ascended to the sky. By the advice of the lord Ara-han, the king 

 consoled himself by worshipping the jewelled basket in which the 

 holy relic had been carried. He then thought of the famous tooth 

 relic in Ceylon, and sent a ship with four discreet messengers to ask 

 the king of that country for it. A miraculous emanation from the 

 tooth was the reward of this pious zeal, and this was borne away with 

 great honour by the four messengers. The king proceeded to the 

 seaport to receive it, and brought it with a grand procession to 

 Pu-gan, where it was deposited in a suitable building at the gate of 

 the palace.* After this king Ma-nn-ha and his whole family were 

 degraded to the lowest depth of infamy, by being presented as pagoda 

 slaves to the Shwe-zi-giin pagoda. About this time Kyan-tsit-tha 

 deeply offended the king, and fled. The king despatched after him 

 some of his Indian swift-running footmen, but they could not take 

 him. Kyan-tsit-tha crossed the Irawadi river to the western bank 

 and took refuge at a monastery, where he remained concealed. The 

 king now made a progress through the western portion of his domi- 

 nions as far as Bengal. That his descendants might have a memorial 

 of his greatness, he set up stone images ; and having built pagodas, 

 returned to his own city. As the reign of A-nau-ra-hta draws to a 

 close, the historian recapitulates the many pagodas and monasteries 

 which he had built; the tanks, canals, and water-dams he had 

 constructed ; the rice-land he had redeemed from jangal ; his great 

 armies and the extent of his kingdom. But the protecting influence 

 of his good works was at length exhausted. In going to China he 

 had offended the guardian Nat of a tree, wiio then became his enemy. 

 As long as the influence of the king's good works remained, the Nat 

 could do nothing against him. But that being now exhausted, the 

 Nat sought to take revenge. Changed into a wild buffalo, he met the 

 king near one of the gates of the city, and gored him to death. A- 

 nau-ra-hta reigned for forty-two years. 



He was succeeded by Tsau-lu, his son born of his chief queen 

 The governor of Pegu, Nga-Ra-man-kan, rebelled. In the disturb- 



* It is curious that a few years ago the present king of Burma deputed 

 messengers to Ceylon to procure it, where it was popularly stated the tooth 

 relic was deposited. They returned with a model of it, which has been placed 

 in a building within the palace yard. 



