[Footnote 124: For the Pyus see Blagden in _J.R.A.S._ pp. 365-388. _Ibid._ in _Epigr. Indica_, 1913, pp. 127-133. Also reports of _Burma Arch. Survey_, 1916, 1917.]
[Footnote 125: So C.C. Lowis in the _Gazetteer of Burma_, vol. I. p. 292, but according to others the Burmese chronicles place the event at the beginning of the Christian era.]
[Footnote 126: Sometimes called New Pagan to distinguish it from Old Pagan which was a name of Tagaung. Also called Pagan or Pugâma and in Pali Arimaddanapura.]
[Footnote 127: See the travels of Kia Tan described by Pelliot in _B.E.F.E.O._ 1904, pp. 131-414.]
[Footnote 128: More correctly Taung-ngu.]
[Footnote 129: For the history and present condition of Buddhism in Burma the following may be consulted besides other works referred to in the course of this chapter.
M. Bode, _Edition of the Sâsanavaṃsa_ with valuable dissertations, 1897. This work is a modern Burmese ecclesiastical history written in 1861 by Paññâsâmi.
M. Bode, _The Pali Literature of Burma_, 1909.
The Gandhavaṃsa: containing accounts of many Pali works written in Burma. Edited by Minayeff in _Jour. Pali Text Soc._ for 1886, pp. 54 ff. and indexed by M. Bode, _ibid._ 1896, 53 ff.
Bigandet, _Vie ou Légende de Gautama_, 1878.
J.G. Scott, _Burma, a handbook of practical information_, 1906.
_Reports of the Superintendent, Archaeological Survey, Burma_, 1916-1920.
Various articles (especially by Duroiselle, Taw-Sein-Ko and R.C. Temple) in the _Indian Antiquary_, _Buddhism_, and _Bulletin de l'Ecole Française de l'Extrême Orient._]
[Footnote 130: So too Prome is called Śrîkshetra and the name Irrawaddy represents Irâvatî (the modern Ravi). The ancient town of Śrâvastî or Sâvatthi is said to reappear in the three forms Tharawaddy, Tharawaw and Thawutti.]
[Footnote 131: See _Indian Antiquary_, 1893, p. 6, and Forchhammer on the Mahamuni Pagoda in _Burmese Archaeological Report_ (? 1890).]
[Footnote 132: Dîpav. VIII. 12, and in a more embellished form in Mahâvaṃsa XII. 44-54. See also the Kalyani Inscriptions in _Indian Ant._ 1893, p. 16.]
[Footnote 133: Through the form Saton representing Saddhan. Early European travellers called it Satan or Xatan.]
[Footnote 134: The Burmese identify Aparantaka and Yona to which Asoka also sent missionaries with Upper Burma and the Shan country. But this seems to be merely a misapplication of Indian names.]