RECONSTRUCTION OF BURMA, THE GOLDEN LAND(PART II) BY RAJA SARAKA

Kindly dedicated for my dearest Dr. Elizabeth Howard Moore. PINYA(URBAN OR MYODWIN) -SRI VIJAYA . ------------------------------------------------ Most of the western scholars, Chinese Scholars and Burma's Chinese or pro-Chinese scholars place Maingmaw in Kyaukse district between Myittha and Kume. Bob Hudson first put Pinya at the place and mentioned as Myodwin. Most of the scholars took Maingmaw's position where Pinya is built according to Luce's hypothetical assumption as "Mama asa Kyaukse ka". This assumption is totally baseless and wrong. I will; argue the following statement made by O’Reilly(2007) is not correct especially placing of Maingmaw near Pinle. to be continued. The country of Kosalas was located to the north-west of Magadha with its capital at Savatthi (Sravasti). It was located about 70 miles to north-west of Gorakhpur and comprised territory corresponding to the modern Awadh (or Oudh) in Uttar Pradesh. It had river Ganga for its southern, river Gandhak for its eastern and the Himalaya mountains for its northern boundaries.