TO THE COURT OF AYA. 
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not able to learn. In another temple of Sa- 
gaing, which I visited a few days back, the 
greater number of the offerings consisted of 
small marble images of Buddha, not above fif¬ 
teen inches high. Of these I counted not less 
than between three and four hundred. 
On the river-face of the temple which I have 
now been describing, there are two large houses 
of brick and mortar of one story, with flat stone 
roofs, called Taik by the Burmans, and purport¬ 
ing to be in imitation of European dwellings. 
These are also considered Za-yats, or caravan- 
seras. They are comfortless places as can be, 
the interior being so occupied with stone pillars 
that there is hardly room to move about. These 
two buildings were occupied by the Cochin Chi¬ 
nese Mission in 1821, and were proposed for 
our accommodation; but we declined them, 
chiefly on account of their dampness and want 
of light. 
The guardian Nat of the temple now de¬ 
scribed, is Tha-kya-men, or, more correctly, Sa- 
kya Men, or the Lord Sakya. He is, according 
to the Burmans, the second in power of the two 
Kings of the Nats. Of this personage there is 
in a small temple a standing figure, in white 
marble, not however of a very good description, 
measuring not less than nine feet eleven inches 
