164 D.elUnp, mrlcs of art, laws, *«. of the Karem. [No. 3, 



and Pra-so te S ot Yan-pon-lie, 



Van-pen-lie » The -P tan > 



„ The-phau » ***-W, 



■<r „ Pra-den-he, 



,, Kan-pyu, » 



Pra-den-lie » Kle-pha-man, 



„ Kle-pha-man ,. Kle-pha-vie, 



„ Kle-pha-vie „ Kle-pha-oo, 



„Kle-pha-oo „ Pan-dan-man 



lathe days of Pan-dan-man, the people determined to build a 

 pagoda that should reach np to heaven. The place they suppose o 

 I somewhere in the country of the Bed Karens, with whom th y 

 represent themselves as associated until this event. When the pagoda 

 was half way np to heaven, God came down and confounded the 

 language of the people, so that they could not understand each oth m. 

 Then he people scattered, and Than-mau-rai, the father o the 

 Gaikko tribe, came west, with eight chiefs, and settled » the valley of 



^Tlaren Tradition.-TU Bed Karens say they were driven 

 from a place called Ho-htay-lay in the neighbourhood of Ava, sixteen 

 or seventeen generations ago, and preserved an imperfect genealogy 

 tree0 f the Accession of their chiefs from that period 

 seventeen generations ago would take us back to about A. D 1400 

 1 that was the period when Ava was founded, winch synchron.es | 



with the tradition. 



Seventeen generations ago, they relate, they were governed by a 

 n„een This lady once discovered a beautiful snver flower that 

 had sprung up out of the earth in the forest. The people recognised 

 the hand of God in giving it to them, and danced around rt, and 



W0 When P this became known, the Burmese came down on the Karens 

 to obtain possession of the silver flower. In the war that ensued, the 

 Oneen was killed, and the Karens fled south to the country of 

 Lngoo, where they say they built a city. B«t the Bnrmese followj 

 them up, and after a residence of one year in Toungoo they fled 



each to the region which they now occupy. 

 'l)r Richardson who visited Eastern Karenee obtained from the 



people another tradition, in which they represented themselves as 



