British Burma And Its People Being Sketches of Native Manners Customs And Rel
British Burma And Its People Being Sketches of Native Manners Customs And Rel
Charles James Forbes Smith Forbes
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, and the value of voluntary labour supplied, subscriptions towards the expenses, and offerings of new gold and silver bells made by the people of Rangoon and British Burma generally, perhaps amounted to 20, OOOZ. More. I know one man and his wife who presented a small gold bell set with emeralds, of the value of 70Z. There are several other celebrated pagodas in British Burma, at Pegu, Proine, Maulmain, Arracan, and other towns ; almost every conspicuous hill peak is crowned with a pagoda larg...e or small, and some of these, especially in the Pegu province, have a great reputation for sanctity, and are associated with mar- vellous legends. Of one of these last, and of the scene presented 2O2 British Burma. CH. VII. at the annual pilgrimage to it, I will endeavour to give a description. About half-way between the Sittoung and Beeling rivers is the town of Kyeik-hto, and 14 miles north- east of this lies a conspicuous peak 3, 600 feet high, on which there is a small but remarkable and cele- brated pagoda generally called ' Kyeik-tee-yoh, ' which is a corruption of the old Mon name of ' Kyeik-ethee- yuh, ' signifying 'the god carried on the head of the hermit.
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