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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1898.
The well-known Barmese inscriptions at Buddha Gayê are given at length with renderings (hardly "scientific" withal) in J. A. S. B., 1834, p. 214; Archæological Survey of India, Reports, Vol. III. p. 102 ff. ; Cunningham's Mahabodhi, p. 75 ff.; Rajendralala Mitra's Buddha Guya, pp. 206-228. And there are also scattered notices of inscriptions in Crawfurd's Ava, p. 27 ff. and Appx. p. 28 ff.; Yule's Ava, p. 351 f. ; British Lurma Gazetteer, Vol. II. p. 634, Art. Shwedagon; and Hesketh-Biggs' Shwedagon Pagoda, pp. 42 ff., 53 f.10
To these I may add a note on my own, ante, Vol. XXI. p. 52, on & curious English inscription on a large bell on the platform of the Kyaukbànlànll Pagoda at Maulmain, 12 because it gives a statement of a weight: - "He who destroyed to this bell they must be in the great heell and unable to coming out. This bell is made by Koonah Lingahyah (Gaņalaikara) the Priest and weight 600 viss. No one body design to destroy this bell Maulmain, March 30th, 1855."
Crawfurd's inscriptions are part renderings by the well-known Burmese scholar Judson, of two of the Mahamuni collection of stones, of which he says there were (Nov. 30, 1826), according to his counting, 200; and be seems to clearly infer that the stones he saw set up in
Tbo two volumes of the second work are printed in the samo form as the first with a slight change. They con. tain 505 and 467 pp., but are paged consecutively in 962 pp. The inscriptions are arranged therein geographically, according to the modern English divisions of the Country. Thus:
1.- Upper Burma.
A. - Northern Division. Mandalay District
... ... 26 Shwebô District ... ... Kyauktwin District
Total ... ...
B. - Central Division. Sagaing District
... ... 218 Lower Chindwin District..
Total ... ...
c. -Southern Division. Pak'ókka District ... ... ... ... 41, Mind District Magwe District ... ... ... ... 5 Dayet District ... ...
Total
D. - Eastern Division. Myingyan District ...
... ... 153, Kyaukse District ... Mēktila District ... ... ... 12 Yamè in District ...
Total
E. - Unattached Villager Total
F. Shan Country. South
. .. 4 North
Total
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Total for Upper Burma II. - Lower Burma.
A. - Pago (Pega) Division. Pylmyo (Prome) District
de Division. . Héngtad District C. -Tanin Ayi (Tenasserim) Division.
* Taung-nga District ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... ... .. 3
Total . ... . .. .. -
Total for all Burma ... ... ... ... 596 The places that have contributed the largest number to this collection of inscriptions are Shwebo, 35; Sagaing 77; Ava, 35; Piny4, 82; Amyin, 64; Pak'ingyt, 28; Talókmyô, 36; Pagin and neighbourhood, 112.
There is a table of contents and a list of errata prefized to each volume, and to each inscription is prefixed such information as its serial number by place, Sub-division, District and Division: its designation, vollector, original position, date, giver, gift.
10 In 1898 I prooured anthentio copies of the important Rajamanich la Inscription at the Kaung'mAdd Pagoda, dated c. 1660 A, D., and the Burma Government started printing it for me, but I do not know what the final result was, as I soon afterwards left the country. I have still a rubbing and hand copy of the Kadagandd Inscription of Mindön Min, 1858 A. D., at Shwebo. Maloom, Travels, Vol. I. p. 127, says that the pagoda is dated 1626, A. D.
11 Kyaikabanlan nocording to Stevenson, Bur. Dict. p. 406 : spelt Krokbramilam. At p. 405f, there is a valuablo list of pagodas in this work.
"A notice of this bell and ita inscription is to be found in Soott, The Burman, Vol. I. p. 242 f.: Winter, Six Months in Burma, 1856, p. 88.
