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Prome was coming by water. He determined not to await attack in the 
city. The army took post at Muanu to await the Burmese enemy, and the 
battle took place close to the capital. A portion of the city was set on fire 
during the engagement by a force detached for that purpose by Bureng 
Naung, in order to alarm the enemy. Thaminhtau fought with courage, but 
his army was defeated, and he was obliged to leave his elephant, and mount 
a horso to fly from the field. He fled to Dala. Bureng Naung entered 
the city on the following morning. The battle was fought in the latter end 
of April, 1551. There probably were Portuguese on both sides in this 
battle, but no detailed account of it is to be found in the Portuguese 
history. The clearest reference thereto is in the following passage—“ Chau- 
“ migrem who, the year before, retired to (from) Pegu, hearing afterwards 
“ that Xemindoo was unprovided, marched against him, and obtaining 
“ the victory, brought that crown again under the subjection of the Bra- 
“ maes. Xemindoo, taken some time after, was publicly beheaded.” And 
again we read in another volume—“ The first rebel possessed himself of the 
“ crown, till Mandaragi, the late king’s brother-in-law, claimed it in right 
“ of his wife, and coming to a battle, gave him such a total defeat that 
“ Xemindoo fled.” 
Most of the Talaing nobles submitted to the conqueror. On the 
third day after the battle, Bureng Naung started in pursuit of Thaminhtau, 
who was striving to rally his followers in the forests of the delta. Being at 
last compelled to fly, he once more assumed the dress of a Phungyi, or 
Budhist monk, and took refuge in the district of Bassein. From thence 
he found means to fly with a few followers by boat to Muttama. 
Bureng Naung remained at Bassein until August, 1551, settling the 
affairs of that part of the country, and then returned to Pegu city. His 
first care was to repair the holy buildings injured during the war, and he 
built a Dze-di over the remains of Tabeng Shw^-hti. Not long after, the 
unfortunate Thaminhtau, having been betrayed, was brought in. Bureng 
Naung offered him his life, if he would make obeisance ; but this, the Talaing 
history states, he refused to do, and he died of a wound he had already re¬ 
ceived. The Portuguese account says that he was beheaded ; and the Burmese 
historian merely observes, “ An evil-minded man, had an evil death.” 
Muttama having now been occupied, another of Bureng Naung’s 
brothers was made tributary king with the title of Meng-re-tsi-tlui. Bureng 
Naung assumed the title of King of Kings or Emperor ; and his eldest son 
was declared Maha Upa Badza, or Crown-prince. The emperor ruled over 
a wide extent of country, and prepared to assert his claim to the throne 
of Ava ; for as the successor of Tabeng Shwe lit! he assumed the title of king 
of the Burma race, though neither of them had reigned in the country of 
Burma proper, An army was sent up the Erawati in July, 1553, under the 
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