The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume II)Bigandet, Paul Ambroise
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The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume II)
Bigandet, Paul Ambroise
Buddhism -- Burma; Burma -- Religion; Gautama Buddha
Among the three hundred princes and nobles whom Adzatathat had brought
over from Wethalie, one of them had a daughter remarkable for the
attractions of her person and the accomplishments of her mind. She was by
the order of the king raised to the position of a courtezan in Radzagio.
Whilst engaged in that course she had a male child, whom, with unnatural
feelings, she ordered to be thrown during the night into the midst of
bushes, outside the city. A Naga guardian of the place watched over the
infant and carefully protected him. On the following morning, the king,
happening to pass by, heard the sound thoo-thoo many times repeated. It
was the Naga who made this noise in order to attract his attention. The
king having sent one of his officers to the spot the sound was coming
from, was informed that an infant still alive was lying there under
the guard of a Naga. Moved with compassion, he ordered the child to be
forwarded to his palace and had him carefully brought up. On account
of the sound thoo-thoo which had been heard, and of the Naga that had
been met on the spot, the child was named Thoo-thoo-naga. He grew up and
became an accomplished prince. The people, who had rid themselves of the
line of parricide kings, unanimously proclaimed him king in 63.
That monarch, not unmindful of his mother’s origin, re-established the
city of Wethalie, and fixed in it the royal residence. From that time
Radzagio lost her rank of royal city, which she never after recovered. He
died in 81, and was succeeded by his son Kalathoka, who, as we shall see
subsequently, had a long reign of twenty-eight years.
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