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Buddhism to the reign of Manuha, -- a period Parakkamabahu is placed usually in 1153-1186 extending over thirteen centuries, - "the power A. D. See App. XI. p. lxvi. to Turnour'u of Râmaññadêsa declined, because civil dissen- Mahawanso: and Tennent's Ceylon, Vol. I. sions arose and the extensive country was broken p. 407." up into separate principalities, because the people
(12) Narapatijayasura or Narapatisiba. suffered from famine and pestilence, and because, to the detriment of the propagation of the excel.
King Narapatijayasůra, or Narapatisiba, was lent religion, the country was conquered by the the seventh king of Pagan after Andrat and armies of the seven kinga."
reigned for thirty-seven years, from 117+ to 1211 This very rapid resume, amounting practically
A. D. He built the Gòdòpalin and Chůlamani to silence, is thus explained by Forchhammer, Jar
Pagodas at Pagùn, besides many other religious dine Prise Essay, page 25 f.:-"From the 6th to
edifices in various parts of his kingdom. His the 11th centuries the political history of the
reign is also memorable in the annals of Burma Talnings is a blank. During this period the
because of the communications with Ceylon. ancient kingdom of Khmer or Camboja attained
His own preceptor, Uttarajivainahathêra, visited to its fullest power; it extended from the Gulf
that island, where one of the preceptor's disciples, of Martaban to Tonquin. The kings, who ruled
Chapata, a native of Bassein, received upasamover Khmer from the year 548 A. D. to the 11th padd ordination and remained for ten years. century, favoured Brahmanism to the almost
Chapata returned to Pagán, accompanied by total exclusion and suppression of Buddhism. forir other malithdras, namely, The splendid ruins of Khmêr date from this (1) Sivali, of Támalittbi, i. e., Tamlak; period; the temples are dedicated to Siva and (2) Tamalinda, son of the king of Kamboja Vishu; the inscriptions are written in Sanskrit.
. which may perhaps, in this instance, Camboja is the great kingdom of Zabej' of
be identified with one of the Shân Arabian geographers, which, in the eighth and
States; ninth centuries, extended also over the groups of
(3) Ananda, a native of Kimchipura, which islands south and west of Malacca, including
is probably the well known Kâûchi. Borneo, Java, and Sumatra; Kala (Golanagara),
pura, or Conjeverain; north of Thatôn, was then an important sea
(4) Rahula, of Lankadipa, i. e., Ceylon. harbour, and according to Abuzaid and Kazwini, an Indian town, subject at that time (9th The advent of these priests, and their subsecentury) to the king of Camboja. The country qaent disagreements among themselves, heralded of the Talaings was then, no doubt, also a depend. the existence of religious schisms in Burma. ency of the same kingdom, and the silence of The apostolical succession of Uttarkjivamaha, their records during that period is fully explained thêra, mentioned ante, Vol. XXII. p. 17, is thereby. They mention, however, the struggle interesting, as it bears testimony to the early for ascendancy between Bralatanism and Bad. intercourse between Thatôn and Magadha and to dhism; the latter prevailed, chiefly because the the fact that the Talaing priests of those days were maritime provinces of Burma became a place of
renowned for their piety and learning. refuge to a great number of Buddbist fugitives
It may be noted by the way that Kappunganafrom India."
gara is locally identified with Kabaing, a small In this connexion it may be noted that, in villnge a few miles to the south-west of Rangoon, order to comprehend accurately the history of and that Sudhammanagara is a classical name of Burina, the history of Indo-China should be Thaton. studied as a whole.
The reign of Narapatisfba is also memorable in (11) Sirisanghabodhi-Parakkamabahuraja. Burmese history, for the high culture of the
These inscriptions are so full of dates relating Burmese poetry of the period, and four, in Burma, to the doings of the Talaing emissaries to the Court immortal verses are attributed to Anantasdriya of the Sinhalese kings that they should go far on the eve of his execution in this reign: -vido towards establishing the still doubtful chronology Mahdydzarindògyi, Vol. I. page 357. of the line.
Taw SEIN.Ko. (Chiefly, I think, for the same reason that the history Kegalla District, 1892, p. vii. wishes to put forward of the same centuries was blank for so loug in India,
the date of Parakkamabahu (Parikrama Bahu) to 1164 vix., the very numerona Talaing inscriptions have not A. D. He suggests various other alterations in dates, yet been deciphered and read. -Ed.)
and tells me that the Kalyant Inscriptions have sup 10 Mr. Bell, Arch. Survey of Ceylon, Report on the ported his views. -ED.]
