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Sir Arthur P, Phayre —On the History of Pegu. 
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had risen up, so as to be plainly visible above the surface of the sea. A 
foreign ship which came from the city of Bij-ja-na-ga-ran, had been on a 
trading voyage to Tlia-litun, and in returning passed near the sandbank. 
The tide was falling and the sailors saw a number of golden hanthas feeding 
and disporting themselves after their kind. One pair was conspicuous above 
the rest. The sailors looked and wondered. When they reached their own 
country, they related what they had seen. Their story reached the king 
Ban-du-ra-rens;. The kind’s teacher beiim a man of learning:, well read in 
the scriptures, knew that the lord Gautama had. been to that country, and 
that what had been seen by the sailors was an omen of its future greatness. 
By his advice, the king determined to secure for his descendants the spot 
where the hanthas had been seen. He, therefore, had a stone pillar engraved 
with his name and title. This was conveyed in a ship to the spot, and de¬ 
posited in the sea, close to the silvery sandbank. After this, when one 
hundred and sixty years had passed, the silvery sandbank had risen much 
higher and become firm land. King Bandurareng had passed away, and his 
grandson Ku-wa-tha Na-reng now reigned. He knowing all that had 
occurred, sent a ship under a wise man of high rank to make search for the 
stone pillar deposited by his grandfather, and so to prove his right to the 
land. 
Now at this time A-din-na Badza was king of Tha-litun. He was jea¬ 
lous for religion, and had succeeded his father Thin-na-geng-ga to the exclu¬ 
sion of two half-brothers, whose succession had been favoured by his father 
during his lifetime. The story of their birth is thus told. On the sea-shore, 
far from the habitations of men, a female dragon came and laid an ess:. A 
hermit who dwelt in a cave hard by, found the egg and took it to his home. 
In seven days a female child was produced from the egg, who was brought 
up by the hermit. When grown up, she was married to king Thin-na-geng- 
ga, and raised to the rank of chief queen. She gave birth to two sons* who 
were named Thamala and Wimala. The queen, notwithstanding her beauty 
and the high favour of the king, was always an object of aversion among 
the nobles of the court, though it was not then known that she was of the 
Naga or dragon race. This was discovered by the sagacity of the king’s 
teacher, and she then died suddenly in a very mysterious manner. Her two 
sons were sent away to the hermit, who was called their grandfather, and 
who brought them up in the forest. On the death of their father, another 
son of his, called A-din-na Badza, succeeded to the throne. The two young 
princes, by the advice of the hermit, determined to build a city for themselves 
to the west, on the land where the hermit knew the golden liansas used to 
feed, and where the lord Gautama had predicted that a great city would 
arise. They, therefore, collected one hundred and seventy families from the 
country of Tha-litun, and embarked them on bamboo rafts, ten families on 
