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1872.] Fryer — Note on an Arakanese Coin. 
China was Gala taing candra, the ninth and last sovereign of the dynasty 
of the city of Vaisali, and that his wife Cau-da-devi, in ^ .1 ai 9 , f irs ^ 
married and raised to the throne a chief of the Myu tribe, named Amyatu, 
and on his death, seven years after, married his nephew Pe-byu, both of whom 
the ring was found to fit. After Pe-byu's accession in A. D. 904, he aban- 
doned the city of Vaisali, and closed a dynasty which had virtually ended 
in A. D. 957, when Cula taing candra was drowned on his return from China. 
All the names in this dynasty end in candra, and that of the seventh king 
Siri taing candra is so like Sri ta candra on one of Captain Latter’s coins, 
that the identity seems complete. 
I think therefore we may rightly regard these coins as records of the 
Vaisali dynasty of Arakan, of which there reigned in lineal succession nine 
kings from A. D. 788 to 957, or throughout a period of 169 years, syn- 
chronous with the Anglo-Saxon period of English history. 
Dynasty of Vaisali. A. D. 
1. Maha taing candra, 788 
2. Suriya taing candra, 810 
3. Mola taing candra, 830 
4. Pola taing candra, 849 
5. Kala taing candra, 875 
6. Dula taing candra, 884 
7. Siri taing candra, 903 
8. Singha taing candra, 935 
9. Cula taing candra, 951 
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