GREAT BELL OF KANGOOK t'/l 



felicity, diffuse light, and as the globe of the sun disperses mist, and illuminates 

 the four islands, so has he mercifully committed to rational beings, the splendour 

 of the eternal moral law, to remove the foul mist overspreading men, Nats^ 

 and Brahmas,^ through lust, ignorance, and false doctrine, from his entering 

 into the everlasting enjoyment of Nielchan, at the root of the two Eng-gyetig 

 trees' in the garden of the Malla Kings, in Kukthie7i-nd-yony° S320 years, 

 of the establishment of the religious dispensation (of Gautama), common era 

 1138, Sunday, 9th day of the decrease of the moon Nayon,''^ by means of 

 powe^ above all royal dominions on the surface of Zam-pu-di-pa, in circum- 

 ference 10,000 Yiizana,'^ and by means of beneficent attributes, which 

 diffuse fragrance beyond the limits of the mansion of the Brahmas, the 

 celestial apex, the Great Bell^ eminently named Maha Ganda, metal weigh- 

 ing 15,5.55 Piektha,^^ diameter five cubits, height seven cubits and twelve 

 inches, circumference fifteen cubits, thickness twelve inches, the successor of 

 the monarchs oi Engwa, the golden city, the city Ya-ta-na-pura,^^ the conquer- 

 ing place, having the inscription " twelve walled," the resplendent golden city 

 and palace, the supreme capital Ya-ta-na-pura Shwe Engwa, the confluence of 

 five rivers, like the tongues of lions,' ^ the fame of the incomparable golden 

 palace, whose glory is religious merit, the lord of life and rightful monarch, 

 Maha Damma Rdzadepate,'^ and transcendently glorious, who maintains the 

 prosperity of religion and the great kingdom, and makes the perfection of his 

 authority to equal the perfect orb of the newly risen sun, who bestows com- 

 plete benefactions, and fulfils the precepts of incarnate divinity and of holy 

 men, who practises the ten royal virtues,'' and possesses the seven moral quali- 

 ties of the pious, purity of intention, circumspection, modesty, tenderness 

 of conscience, knowledge, charity, wisdom ; who erects and gilds royal 

 works of merit' ^ in his empire, far and near, monasteries, monuments (to 

 the memory of Biid'k,) and colonnades of images, wlio supports and gilds 

 memorials raised in honor of the deity, preserves the three divisions of the 

 81,000 scriptures, and the monasteries of five, four, and three successively 



