Tuesday, May 16, 2006

U Kala's Burmese Chronicle
(Mahayazawingyi):
Table of Contents

1. Banamapobbakagandarama.
2. How the universe was created and destroyed.
3. Regarding the following terms - Andara Kat, Ethinkyei Kat, and Maha Kat.
4. About the Athinkyeiya (countless, infinite) Kat.
5. About the different eras (periods) of the Maha Kat.
6. About the extent (duration ?) of the periods refered to above.
6. About the extent (duration ?) of the periods refered to above.
7. How the world was destroyed.
8. About the structure and order of world destruction.
14 - How the primordial people ate fertile soil among other things and how the foods they ate degenerated as greed and desire arose.
15. How after the food eaten in former times had disappeared and Thalei rice was eaten, men and women were created, and sexual relations between them began.
16. How the primordial people built houses and lived in them.
17. How the primordial people accumulated food.
18. How the primordial people came to lament their own behavior.
19. How theft among other things appeared during the primordial era.
20. How the primordial people came together and elected the first king (Mahathamada).
21. How from the primordial people the four types originated.
22. How the Mahathammada king collected taxes and put together the first law books (Dammathat-kyan).
23. How during the Andara Kat things were destroyed and then recreated and how the second Mahathammmada king was elected (ascended) to the throne.
24. How in the manner described above things were destroyed and recreated and the third Mahathammada king was elected.
(??) 25. How as was described above things were destroyed and recreated and the fourth Mahathammada king ascended the throne.
25. How as was described above things were destroyed and recreated and the fourth Mahathammada king ascended the throne.
26. A description of the occurence of the fifth Kat and from the fifth Mahathamada king up until the Eika-dathama eleventh Mahathamada king during which there were eleven Kats.
27. How during the reign of eleven Mahathamada kings references were made to the Tripitaka.
28. How on the earth four Buddhas one by one attained enlightenment.
29. How the eleventh Mahathamada king governed.
30. How starting from this Mahathamada king his sons, grandsons, and great grandsons formed a royal line of 28 kings (for 28 generations).
30. How starting from this Mahathamada king his sons, grandsons, and great grandsons formed a royal line of 28 kings (for 28 generations).
31. About the royal line of the Mahathamada king starting from King Issima and continueing on through his sons, grandsons, and great grandsons.
32. The life story of the great king Okkakarit
33. How the sons and daughters of King Okkakarit together accompanied with soldiers set out and founded the kingdom of Kapilawut.
91. How starting from the Azatathat king there was a series (a line) of five Abathat kings.
92. The story of Thuthunaga (the facts of, about)
93. About the twelve kings who reigned starting from Thuthunaga, KalaThoka, and Badatheinasa.
93. About the nine kings who reigned starting from king Okatheina.
95. About Zanakabonna.
96. About the young man Sandagotta.
97. How prince Sandagotta murdered King Danananda.
98. How ... subjugated and became king.
100. Prince Banduthara becomes king and how queen Dhamma after becoming pregnant craves five things.
101. How Saranaziwaka preached (or taught). (The teaching of Saranaziwaka)
102. About the birth of Prince Dhamathawka.
104. How King Mahathawka subjugated his 99 rebellious older brothers.
105. ?
108. How the great Thiridhammathawka looked for noble alms seekers.
109. How the king met noble alms seekers.
110. How Thiridhammathawka and the novice Nigroda performed acts of merit in the past
111. How the great king Thiridhammathawka addressed questions to the novice Nigroda and how Nigroda preached the Law (taught Buddhist doctrine)
112. How the beliefs of the king's younger brother, the crown prince Teitha, were eliminated.
113. How the king's younger brother Teitha, the crown prince, became a monk.
115. How the king Azatathatalong with the Butawahana with great difficulty placed sacred relics in a pagoda.
114. How the king's son Aggibrahma became a monk.
116. ?
117. How people who could destroy the Yandara machine came to carry it away.
118. How 84,000 monasteries and Jedis were built all at the same time
119. How the great Jedi of Patalipot was erected.
120. How the great king Thiridhammathawka rid himself of all the danger that he faced while at the same time performing an act of merit.
121. ?
122. About how the Mahatei Lord Upagot was invited (called).

3 Comments:

Blogger phonegee said...

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4:01 PM  
Blogger phonegee said...

Cannot find TOC 123 to 532. Planning to be added later? Your translation is precise and easy to cross reference the orignal Burmese version.

3:43 PM  
Blogger Jon Fernquest said...

Yes, I will add it when I am not working as a full time journalist. Right now my brain is fried by keeping up with current events in Southeast Asia.

Thanks for your interest in the translation.

3:33 AM  

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