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king now beautified the city of Hantliawati. In the following year he 
collected a force at Pu-thin, with which he advanced against the city or 
fort of Ku-dwut on the frontier, which had been occupied by the king 
of Burma. The Burmese retired on his approach, and he strengthened the 
place. During his absence he suspected his eldest son of conspiring against 
him and had him put to death. The prince died protesting his innocence, 
and openly wishing that he might be horn king of a neighbouring coun¬ 
try to take his revenge for this injustice. 
The king of Siam sent a white elephant and a letter, acknowledging 
Radzadirit as being of the same race as himself. Soon after, the king of 
Ava came suddenly to attack the fort of Ku-dwut. An army was sent to 
support the garrison, and the king of Burma retired, liadzadirft now had 
leisure to attend to the affairs of his kingdom. 
The king of Ava, Meng kyi-tswa Tsau-ke, died, and was succeed¬ 
ed by his son Tsheng-phyu sheng. But he was soon after murdered, and 
his brother Meng Khaung was placed on the throne in the year 7G3. 
About this time, we learn from the histories of Arakan and Burma, that 
a quarrel arose between those two countries, though the causes are not 
distinctly stated. In the former it is related that, in the year 756 (A. D. 
1394), the king of Arakan marched to attack the Burmese territory. 
But in the latter history, this event is placed in the year 765, which 
agrees better with the chronicles of Pegu. # Prom whatever cause this 
difference of date may have arisen, it is certain that, about the latter 
period, the king of Burma being engaged in a dispute with Arakan, and 
also, as the history of Pegu states, from discontent existing in the sou¬ 
thern provinces, Radzadirit thought he saw his opportunity to take revenge 
for the invasions of Meng kyi-tswa Tsauke. He assembled a large army, 
and a flotilla of boats to proceed by the Erawati. There were four thou¬ 
sand boats of every description. The army moved partly by land and 
partly by water. The king himself left the city in the month Nat da u 
766, A. D. 1404. He proceeded up the river, the army reached Prome, 
which was held for the king of Ava by Byan-khyi, one of the sons of 
Lauk Bya. The town was too strong to be attacked, and the king push¬ 
ed on for the capital. By means of his large flotilla and army combined, 
he was able to invest the capital, but could make no impression on the 
walls. Radzadirit had full command of all the country outside the city, 
and even sent a strong detachment up to Tagaung, the ancient capital. 
Probably he found himself in a difficulty and was glad to retire, but the 
history states that he did so in compliance with the representations of an 
eloquent Budhist monk. He built a monastery at Shwe-kyet-yet, near Ava, 
* See History of Arakan, Jour. As. Soc. of Bengal, for 1844; and History of the 
Burma Ituco, Vol. XXXV11J. for 180‘J. 
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