TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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scribed, but it was much larger, each angle mea¬ 
suring two hundred and seventy feet. The ma¬ 
sonry was carefully and skilfully executed; and 
to strengthen the corners, there were through¬ 
out, at regular intervals of about six feet, blocks 
of hewn freestone. A strong well-built brick- 
wall, twelve feet high, still perfect in many 
places, surrounded the court-yard. In this wall, 
fronting the doors of the temple, there are four 
massy and handsome arched gateways. Every 
thing connected with it, in short, conveyed the 
impression of a superior order of building. In 
the gallery of the ground-floor we found two 
large stones, containing inscriptions in a charac¬ 
ter similar to all the others. The building of 
this handsome edifice is ascribed to a king who 
reigned in Pugan from 1151 of Christ to 1154, 
and who is commonly known in Burman story 
by the epithet of Kula-kya. Kula is a term ap¬ 
plied by the Burmans to the inhabitants of every 
country lying west of their own, whether Euro¬ 
pean or Asiatic, and, in the sense in which they 
use it, is not very remote from the word Barba¬ 
rian, as it was applied by the Greeks to stran¬ 
gers. Kya is, to fall, or be dethroned; and it 
is stated that the epithet is derived from the cir¬ 
cumstance of this prince having lost his life and 
throne by the hands of a foreigner from the 
