[179] Honymaan is worshipped by the Hindoos under the form of an ape, and is one of the most frequent objects of their adoration; almost every Hindoo pagoda has this figure delineated in some part of it. Honymaan (Hanuman) is the term used by the Hindoos to denote a large ape. The worship was widely extended even among the Mexicans, who portrayed monkeys in their picture writings. In the Coptic-Egyptian, Haanu signifies monkey. [180] Asiatic Researches, vol. vi. p. 305. [181] Stock characters seem as prevalent as at the Victoria or Adelphi. [182] Journal of the As. Soc. of Bengal, vol. viii. p. 535 sq. [183] I am partly indebted to Cox, Asiatic Researches, vol. vii. p. 497 sq. [184] Asiatic Researches, vol. vii. p. 499. Comp. Symes, vol. ii. p. 226, small ed. [185] Sangermano, p. 127. [186] Vol. i. p. 240. [187] Vol. i. p. 242. [188] Burmese Empire, p. 128. [189] My authority is an interesting article in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. v. p. 159 sq. [190] A territory to the southward of Manipur. [191] Sravasti in Oude.—Wilson. [192] Yázá is the Burmese pronunciation of Rája. [193] Book i. chap. iii. p. 47. [194] Ava, vol. i. p. 270, small edition. [195] Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. v. p. 164. [196] One of the king of Ava’s titles is Nedwet bhuyen—Sun-descended monarch. Strange coincidence with the Inca boast! [197] Mr. Judson has given us a translation of a chronological summary, which is of extreme value. It is now, together with the text, in the British Museum.—(Additional MS., No. 12,400.) [198] Symes, vol. ii. p. 51 sqq. [199] Ib. id. p. 55. [200] Symes, vol. ii. p. 58. [201] Malcom, vol. i. p. 220. [202] Sangermano, p. 119. [203] Ibid. [204] Sangermano, p. 120. [205] Ibid. [206] Symes, Ava, vol. i. p. 1. [207] The particulars will be found in Captain Drury’s paper in No. V. of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1851; and in Allen’s Indian Mail, vol. x. p. 265. [208] Burmese Empire, p. 47. [209] Ava, vol. i. p. 12. [210] My sketch of the Burmese revolution is derived from Symes. [211] The first is a Burmese word signifying victory; the second, Pali, for the same.—Crawfurd, vol. ii. p. 281. [212] Jancigny, _Indo-Chine_, p. 255. [213] See book i. chap. ii. p. 40. [214] Ava, vol. i. p. 34. [215] So Symes always spells the word. It is now generally spelt Burmans. [216] Symes, vol. i. pp. 43-49. [217] Ava, vol. i. pp. 53-55. [218] Vol. i. pp. 56-57. [219] Symes, vol. i. p. 67.