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Arakan’s Place In The Civilization Of the Bay-A study of coinage and foreign Relations
U San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
Mr. Htoon Aung Gyaw, Barrister - at - Law and certain other private collectors of Akyab have in their possession over a hundred coins found in Arakan. When recently arranged by Mr. San Shwe Bu more +
Dom Martin 1606 -1643, The first Burman to visit Europe
M. S. Collis in collaboration with U San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
It is the object of this paper to explain who Dom Martin was, why as an Arakanese he had a Portuguese name and how it happened that he paid a visit to Portugal. more +
An Arakanese Poem of the 16th Century
M.S. Collis | Thursday, February 07, 2008
Mr. San Shwe Bu in Volume IX, Part III, of the Burma Research Journal has already given a sketch of the life of Ugga Byan, the author of the poem translated below. But for the convenience of the reader and in order to complete the subject under one head more +
The First Burmese War
Maung Boon Translated by San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
I, Maung Boon, who am the tutor of Henry Hopkinson, the commissioner of Arakan, will here relate the history of the war between the East India Company and the Burmese. more +
Folk Tales of Arakan
U San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
Long, long age there lived a window whose worldly possessions consisted of three beautiful daughters. Although she was very very poor she would not permit any of her daughters to do any form of manual labour more +
Sources of Folk Tales of Arakan
U San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
Mr. Grant Brown is quite justified in making the remarks he did especially in regard to the “Story of the Turtle” (J.B.R.S vol. part). But if ever he brought in a suggestion that I manufactured the story for Arakan more +
Folk Tales of Arakan III-The Ten Simpletons
U San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
According to the old saying that birds of a feather generally flock together, so there once met in a village, by some strange fatality, ten simple rustics of similar tastes and disposition. more +
Folk Tales of Arakan II–Enforced Greatness
U San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
Once upon a time there lived a very poor middle aged couple on the outskirts of a great and magnificent city. Early in the morning the man used to set out to the city and return home in the evening with a few odd annas earned by picking up small jobs in the warehouses of wealthy merchants. more +
The Legend of the Early Aryan Settlement of Arakan
U San Shwe Bu | Friday, February 08, 2008
Many centuries before the birth of Buddha there reigned in the country of Uttara Madhura a powerful king whose name was Sagaradeva. At the same time in the country of Asitinjana there ruled a king of the same race whose name was Deva Kamsa. more +
Leik-Kam-Pha-Ma-Wuttu or The Story of the Turtle
U San Shwe Bu | Friday, February 08, 2008
In an obscure village in Arakan there once lived a man and his wife with their only daughter by name Mai Htwe Yai. I cannot tell you the names of the girl’s parents; but it was the custom of the people in the country more +
Brass Figure - Lamp found at Old Wesali, Arakan
U San Shwe Bu | Friday, February 08, 2008
Of all the form of gifts to the Gods (deva danam) there is perhaps none which can equalize in merit-winning capacity that which is offered in the from of lamps or dipam more +
U Ga Byan, Governor of Sindin, Arakan
U San Shwe Bu | Friday, February 08, 2008
Few figurers in Arkanese history are so attractive as that of the minister U Ga Byan the dashing soldier, the dilettante, the litterateur, the friend and companion of Min Khamaung. more +
The Coronation of King Datha-Raja (1153-1165 A.D)
U San Shwe Bu | Friday, February 08, 2008
In India Buddhism flourished in its purest form till the close of the first century A.D. during which time it had no rival faith worthy the name. That the Jains of those days formed an insignificant minority will be clearly evidenced by the fact that more than three fourths of the people named more +
Wunti Nat
U San Shwe Bu | Friday, February 08, 2008
Nat worship prevailed in Arakan from the earliest times. Abundant references are made to it in all our literature. But for some mysterious reason, no particular mention is made of the name of either a god or a goddess. more +
Legendary History Regarding The Name Mrauk-U (Present Myohoung in Arakan)
U San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
In order to arrive at a clear understanding of the events that led to the first naming of the place “Mrauk-U” which gave its name to the present city it is necessary for us to go back nearly five centuaries from the time Min Saw Mwan built the city in 1430 A.D more +
The Story of Mahamuni
U San Shwe Bu | Thursday, February 07, 2008
The great outstanding feature in the history of Arakan is the account of Buddha's sojourn in this country and of his supervision over the casting of his image. more +
Was Chittagong ever a capital city- A fresh study of some rare coins of Chittagong
ABDUL KARIM | Saturday, October 22, 2005
Chittagong, the port city of Bangladesh, has got a chequered history of her own. In the early period, she was known to the Arabs, the Portuguese and all other European and Asiatic traders more +
Bengali Literature in the Kings Court of Arakan
Dr. Muhammad Enamul Huq (M.A., Ph. D) and Sahitya-sagar Abdul Karim Sahitya Visarad | Wednesday, August 30, 2006
The inhabitants of Arakan [thereafter written as Arakan]Δ are generally known as "Mag" or "Magh"1 in Bengal. The Arakanese [Rakhaing/ Rakhine] people of Mongoloid race do not identify themselves as such more +
THE BURMA WE LOVE
Aye Kyaw (MA, B.L, Ph.D) | Wednesday, August 30, 2006
The present military junta changed the name of the country from Burma to Myanmar- a term first found in the Taungguni inscription of Pagan, A.D. 1090. In the Burmese language more +
The Arakanese Student and Youth Movements
Shwe Lu Maung alias Shahnawaz Khan, Ph.D. (Wales, UK) | Wednesday, August 30, 2006
It is the bounden duty of all Myanmar nationals to totally eliminate, with Union Spirit, discord, hatred and disunity among themselves which are the evil legacy of colonialists more +
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