448 ON THE ANCIENT 
it is now the boundary of Arécan; and in some maps, it is called the 
Dombac. river, from a place of that name situated on its banks. ‘The 
Sanscrit name of Aracan is Barmd, Barmdén and Barménaca proper; by 
the people of Pegu itis called Takain. Dr. F. Bucuanan* says, i that 
Thek is the name’ of a tribe, living on the eastern branch of the river 
Naaf; and who sent a colony to the upper parts of the Carna-fulli; and 
this circumstance is recorded in the Bhiwana-cosa, in the these words: “ at 
“ Carcandaca, in the woods, will come a Trcu-rasx, who will abolish all 
** distinctions of casts; but NaxGARJuNAa will destroy him.” In the Cshétra- 
-samasa, it is called Carcdndu, near the Carma-phull’,. and its present 
name is Cécundi, says our author. It is also in the country of Cemuca, com- 
monly called Ceu or Ceuncd; and its inhabitants Ceuct or Kookies. A res- 
pectable native of Rangoon, who came some years ago to Benares with 
many persons of that country, informed me, that he had been at Arécuhe 
and that he understood, that the bulk of the inhabitants were of a tribe 
called Tek or Teké; and from it the country. was called Tekain or Takain. 
He suspected that Tecain, Yecain and Recain, might be the same name 
differently pronounced, and indeed Dr. Bucnanan says, that indistinct 
articulation is fashionable through the Burmdn empire, and the adjacent 
countries, 
Tue next river is the Maha-nad/ or great river, which flows by Ardcan. 
There is Stila or Saila-pattana, or the stone city, the seat or throne of the 
Maga Rajas. 
* Asiatick Researches, Vol. VI. p. 229. . 
