156 Sir Arthur P. Phayre —The History of Pegu. [No. 2, 
Burmese commanders, apparently glad to leave, returned at once with their 
prisoners to Zimme. There a portion of the force remained, and the 
remainder came on to Hantliawati. These important prisoners were 
forwarded to the emperor who was still at Mogaung, as the exhibition of 
them in that quarter would, it was considered, have a good effect. The 
Tsaubwa of Mogaung, however, could not be caught, and the emperor, 
recalling his son and other officers from the pursuit, returned to Pegu, and 
reached his capital in July, 1576. 
There a great triumph awaited him. The emperor had long been in 
communication with ports on the coast of India and with a Budhist king 
in Ceylon. He was the most powerful protector of the three treasures in 
Indo-China, and his support was naturally sought for by the now petty 
rulers in the holy island of Budhism. Two years before, a Singalese princess 
had arrived and had been received with high honour, though the Portuguese 
historian asserts that the lady sent was only a daughter of the chamberlain 
of the king of Colombo. Now, at the very time the emperor returned to 
his capital, news was brought of the arrival of the holy tooth relic of 
Gautama Budha in a ship at Bassein. As the season was unfavourable for 
the ship to come to Pegu, a deputation of all the nobles of the highest rank 
was sent, and they bore a golden vase, adorned with the richest jewels taken 
from the conquered kings, in which the precious relic was to he deposited. 
A letter was also received from Dhammapala, the king of Ceylon, announcing 
that he was the only orthodox king of the four who ruled in the island. 
Arrangements were made for building a suitable pagoda for the reception 
of the relic ; and with reference to Dhammapala’s complaints of his being 
rather overborne by the three heretical kings, an envoy with a small force 
selected from all the various races in the emperor’s army, was despatched by 
sea to Ceylon. This, it is intimated, had the effect of causing the Budhist 
king to be much respected, and the envoy then returned. 
The Portuguese historian places the arrival of the pseudo-princess and 
the pseudo-relic at the same time, hut otherwise his statement appears 
substantially correct. It is as follows : “ Among the treasure lately taken 
from the king of Jafanatapan, was an idol adored throughout all the 
coast of Asia, and so highly esteemed by all those princes, particularly the 
king of Pegu, that he every year sent ambassadors with rich presents to get 
a print of it.” The king of Pegu hearing that the Portuguese Viceroy had 
this idol—the tooth relic—, offered 300,000 ducats for it. This was refused, 
and the tooth was beaten to dust in a mortar and burnt at Goa, by order 
of the Viceroy Hon Constantin. “ All men,” adds de Sousa, “ at that time 
“ seemed to applaud the act; hut not long after, two teeth being set up 
“ instead of that one, as shall be related in the government of Don Antony 
“ de Noronlia, they as much condemned and reviled at it.” As to the 
