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just mentioned, is ascribed to Nau-ra-tha-chau, 
whose reign commenced at Pugan in the year 
of Christ 997, and terminated in 1030. If 
these images were the principal objects of wor¬ 
ship in the temple, as is probable, and not war¬ 
ders, a situation in which they nowhere else ap¬ 
pear at Pugan, it may be strongly suspected 
that the Budd’hism of the Burmans, eight hun¬ 
dred years ago, differed materially in form from 
that which is at present established ; and that it 
was intermixed with the Brahminical worship, 
as is suspected to have been the case in Java. 
The Hindoo form of the temples at Pugan, and 
the existence of writings in the Deva Nagari 
character, would seem, at least, to give support 
to such a conjecture. 
The last temple which we visited is called 
Damma-ran-kri, the etymology of which I have 
not been able to ascertain. This temple is the 
largest which we saw, and had certainly been 
the finest; but it was now in a state of much di¬ 
lapidation, although still frequented as a place of 
worship, and having some coarse modern figures 
of Gautama in the wings, one of which represent¬ 
ed the deity reclining at full length, his head 
resting on a pillow, an attitude which is much 
less frequent than the sitting posture. The form 
of this temple was the same with that first de- 
