V. 



TRANSLATION 



OF AN 



INSCRIPTION IN THE BURMESE LANGUAGE, 



DISCOVERED 



AT BUDDHA GAYA, IN 1833. 



By LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. BURNEY, 



British Resident in Ava. 



The accompanying paper, (Plate I*) is a facsimile of an ancient Bur- 

 mese inscription, which was discovered at Buddha Gay a by my brother, 

 Captain George Burney, of the 38th Bengal Native Infantry, when he 

 accompanied to that place in January 1 833 the two Burmese Envoys who 

 were lately residing in Bengal, on the part of the king of Ava. The black 

 marble containing the inscription is fixed against the wall of the inner 



* The original fac-simile having by some accident been lost, Mr. V. Hathorne, Judge 

 of Gaya, was kind enough to have three more impressions taken with great care from the stone, 

 which he states to be fixed into the wall in an inverted position. From these the present 

 lithograph has been executed, marking the exterior margin of the letters as they now exist. 

 This has been done with the greater care because a doubt exists as to the date on the stone ; the 

 short account given by myself in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, May 1834, from Ratna 

 Paula's reading, (without any knowledge of Colonel Burney's having taking up the exami- 

 natiou of it) making it 200 years more recent than appears iu the present translation.'— J. P. Sec. 



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