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that Wi-thud-da-ya, &c., mentioned in an ancient pro¬ 
phecy, had arrived with sacred relics, they were penetrated 
with joy : as King Kap-ping and his consort, when they 
heard the preaching of the Deity himself, they went out 
to meet the saint. And when the sacred relics arrived, 
the earth shook, and walls were broken down, as if the 
Deity himself had arrived. When such miracles took 
place, great offerings were made, from motives of ex¬ 
treme religious zeal and reverence ; and the King, seeing 
such divine power displayed, equal to the Yamaik miracle, 
(the Deity exhibiting himself half fire and half water,) 
asked leave of the divine teacher to promote the welfare 
of the three orders of rational beings—men, Nats, and 
Brah-mas. And the teacher looked towards his dis¬ 
ciples, with a view to the welfare of those three orders 
of beings ; and thus the teacher and the disciple, with 
mutual consent, in order to establish the sacred period 
of five thousand years, built the Golden Pagoda, which 
is like the Gem Pagoda, of King A-ba-ya-dut-ta-ka-ma- 
ni. On Saturday, the full moon of Tabaong, in the 
Ma-gha year, and the P 5 hus~sha year 794, on a clear 
spot of ground, south-west of Sa-gaing, the King built the 
Maha Ra-ta-na (Great Gem) Pagoda; whose circum¬ 
ference is one hundred and eighty cubits, and height one 
hundred and twenty, and it is plastered. 
Mo-n’han-men-ta-ra-kri, 
Supremely devoted to the most excellent Three 
Gems—the Deity, his Law, and his Priesthood—all that 
have been, and all that are to be ; replete with glory, 
power, and reputation, the result of meritorious deeds 
performed in past transmigratory existences, through an 
