120 Tie Pegu Pagoda. [No. 2, 



Warooree was succeeded by Pagnya-Oo, who transferred the seat of 

 government from Martaban to Pegu. The chronicler has here again 

 been guilty of a chronological mistake. He states that Pagnya-Oo 

 reigned 16 years in Martaban and 19 in Pegu, altogether 35 years, and 

 yet he makes the date of his accession 731 and of his death 743 ; thus 

 allowing a period of 12 years only for his reign. This king appears 

 to have done more to extend his dominions than any of his predecessors 

 on the throne of Hanthawadie — vide the list of cities founded, already 

 given. 



Pagnya-Oo was succeeded by his son Razadhicrit who was one of 

 the most powerful monarchs who ever reigned in Pegu ; Arakan and 

 China are said to have paid him tribute, and the chronicle gives an 

 interesting account of his relations with Ceylon. 



Pandooya,* the king of that island, sent him his daughter Thamoot- 

 tadewee, with a fleet of seven ships and a holy tooth-relic. This was 

 enshrined in the Shwe Hmawdaw. 



King Razadhicrit reigned 40 years. 



In the reign of Byeenya-rau-khaik, who flourished A. D. 1427 

 about, the Shwe Dagoon Pagoda of Rangoon is mentioned for the first 

 time in the historical period by the chronicler of the Shwe Hmawdaw. 

 It is said that having been damaged by a storm, the Pagoda was 



* This name cannot be identified with any of the names of the kings of Ceylon 

 as given in Tumour's Mahawanso. The only name at all like it is that of the 

 139th king, Pandita Prakrama, who flourished about 1319 A. D. In Tumour's 

 Epitome, the following instances of communication between Burmah and Ceylon 

 are mentioned. A. D. 1071, Anurudha, king of Arakan, sent learned priests to 

 Ceylon. A. D. 1592, Wemala Dharm, king of Ceylon, brought learned priests 

 from Arakan. In 1153 A. D. the Ceylon king is said to have sent an expedition 

 to " Arramana" to chastise the king of that country for having committed acts 

 of violence on Singhalese subjects, and having intercepted ships conveying some 

 princesses from Ceylon to the continent. In 1186 also a Pali letter was written 

 to the king of Arramana soliciting him to send learned priests to Ceylon. Is 

 not this Arramana the same as Ramagnya, the Pali name of a portion of Pegu ? 

 In Tennent's Ceylon it is stated that when the Holy Tooth Relic of Ceylon was 

 seized by the Portuguese, in 1560, " the sovereign of Pegu, who had previously 

 " dispatched annual embassies to offer homage at its shi'ine, sent in anxious 

 " haste to redeem it by exchange of treasures and political services," an offer 

 which, through the influence of the priests, was declined. Again in 1 566, the 

 kin" 1 of Pegu having been told by the astronomers that he was to wed a Singhalese 

 princess, sent to demand her. The king unfortunately happened to have no 

 daughter, but the daughter of one of his ministers was palmed off upon the 

 Pegu monarch as a princess, and at the same time a counterfeit tooth was sent 

 to Pegu as the genuine tooth- relic, which had in fact been destroyed by the 

 Portuguese. 



