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The Song of the Three Mons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Extract

This poem embodies two traditions found among the Mon or Talaing people of Burma, (1) that they came from the east coast of India in very early times, and (2) that they consist of three tribes, occupying three several provinces of the Mon country of Burma-Bassein, Pegu, and Martaban.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1937

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References

page 34 note 1 Among Burmese works consulted are: Thāthanā Linkāra Sadan, § 18; Yāzawuntha Te Kabyā, canto 54; Shwedagon Thamaingdaw Thit (1895 edn.), p. 109; Sagabon Hnit Taung (1899 edn.), p. 142; all published at Hanthawaddy Press, Rangoon. U. Po Kya in his history of Bassein correctly assigns the Mon Nya to Bassein but goes wrong over the others.