270 INSCRIPTION ON THE 



V. 



TRANSLATION 



OF AN 



INSCRIPTION 



ON THE 



GREAT BELL OF RANGOON, 



WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



By The Rev. G. H. HOUGH. 



'* HURING the period of four Then-Jchye,^ and one hundred thousand mun- 

 dane revolutions, having perfectly fulfilled the ten virtues in their thirty 

 sub-divisions, being one who has not an equal in the three mansions of Nals, 

 men, and Brahmas^ by means of the twelve Atsiendeya^^ and being per- 

 fect in beneficence, the supreme of all conquerors, Deity, who vanquishes the 

 five tyrants,^ having delivered, during forty-five years,'^ countless multitudes 

 of intellectual beings from the changes of this transmigratory state, and con- 

 ducted them to the golden region Malta Niekbana Abar^apura,^ having mercy 

 upon the collective number of rational beings, experienced in the rotatory 

 transitions of the three states of being,'' as during the course of five thousand 

 years, the fifty-nine divisions of the Damma Kanda,'^ which conduct to desired 



