Critical feedback sent to Bob Hudson and Elizabnerth Moore (1)

Dear Bob Hudson, My message to Elizabeth Moore for your inforantion. Dear Elizabeth Moore, Thanks for your interest in ancient Burma. Regarding carnelian beads I must stress and argue even those in present Yunnan, ancient part of Maurian Empire , came from Taxila, present Pakistan. Please refer History of Humanity: From the seventh century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. edited by Sigfried J. de Laet, Joachim Herrmann https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=WGUz01yBumEC&pg=PA413&lpg=PA413&dq=Similarity+of+Burmese+Drums+and+Pakistanese+Drums&source=bl&ots=foHtFzAGza&sig=ACfU3U1iK0OMC2tQCczaO6SFuxOO8xH6fg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5hZjg4v3pAhVPeH0KHdqHDoQQ6AEwDXoECA8QAQ#v=onepage&q=Similarity%20of%20Burmese%20Drums%20and%20Pakistanese%20Drums&f=false For your easy reference I type some extract from it as follow. Quote {{{IMPORTED ARTEFACTS FROM CHINA, INDIA AND FURTHER WEST Between 300 BC and 300 AD the country of present Myanmar, endowed with a long coastline and numerous early ports, as well as the Irrawaddy and Salween rivers descending from present day Yunnan in southern China, received artistic influences from western and Central Asia, including India and China proper. The discovery of round striped beads, acid-etched agate and carnelion beads at ancient sites, such as Sriksetra near present Prome, Beikthano near present Taungdwingyi and Halin north of Mandalay, provides evidence of early contacts between ancient Myanmar and western and South Asia, in particular the province of Sindh and the Taxila area near Rawalpindi, in present Pakistan ( ancient Mahabarat ) and beyond to eastern Iran and even the Meditarranian. The analysis of the design on the round striped bead found at Mingmaw suggests association with Taxila, where a bead with the same decoration was found in the Bhir Mound, dated back to the third century BC. As mentioned earlier, these Taxila beads had also managed to reach the Indonesian and Philippine islands. At Sriksetra a wide variety of animal and bird beads were present, for example elephant, lion, tortoise, frog, falcon and a scarab. Artefacts of this types may be seen in the material used in the beads from Sriksetra and that in Taxila and Peshawar suggests that the beads originate workshop in that area. The tortoise beads at Taxila, which are identical with those reported from Sriksetra, are dated back to the first century BC. Such contact between Myanmar and Taxila is also mentioned in the legendary so-called Glass Palace Chronicle of Mandalay, where there is a passage according to which a certain king Bennda(ka) of Sriksetra, said to have reigned from AD 39 to 51 , would have gone to study in Taxila and ‘was deeply versed in medicine, charma and the Vedas’. Although this passage is probably based on Jataka literature, which attributes to some kings in Magadha (Bihar, India) similar contacts with taxila, there is just a possibility that there was a tradition of such relations between the Pyu of Sriksetra and far-away Taxila.}}}} pp413-4 refers. Thanks and best regards. Adam Khan