¹ The spelling “pyo” is in general use and is adopted for this article. A transliteration based on the system described in JBRS, 6, 1916, part 2, 81, would give pyui ^|. This system, with tones marked by dashes ^|and^ǁ) instead of numbers, is used here for Burmese words which do not have an accepted romanization.

² e.g. Lokasāra-pyui ^| by Mahāsangharāja (?14th cent.), Gambhīsāra-pyui ^| by Shin Raṭṭhasāra (16th cent.), Ovāda-thū^ǁ-pyui ^| by Seindakyawthu (18th cent.).

³ e.g. Manoharī-pyui ^| by Nawade I (16th cent.), Yui ^ǁdayā^ǁsaṁ-rok-pyui' by Padesarājā (18th cent.).

⁴ Tin, U Pe Maung, Mranmā-cāpe-samuin ^ǁ, People's Trading Corporation, Rangoon, 1965, 62Google Scholar.

⁵ Raṭṭhasāra, Shin, Catudhammasāra kui ^ǁkhanǁ-pyui ^|, ed. Saw, Daw Khin, Nuiṅ-ṅan-tō Buddhasāsanaaphwai^|, Rangoon, 1959, intro. p. tha.Google Scholar

⁶ Lwin, U Tin, “Pali-Burmese nissaya”, JBRS, 46, 1963, part 1, 48Google Scholar.

⁷ See e.g. Dun, U Kyaw, Kui^ǁkhan^ǁ-pyui^| ṭīkā, Rhwe-Thuṁnagara, , Thaton, 1927Google Scholar, cakā^ǁ khyī^ǁ, p. 2; and Daw Khin Saw, op. cit., p. la f.

⁸ Transliterated: Kui^ǁ khan^ǁ -pyui ^|; also known as the Catudhammasāra and Hatthipāla-pyut^|. All references are to verse-numbers in Daw Khin Saw's edition: see n. 5 above.

⁹ No. 509. Pali text from The jätaka, ed. Fausb⌀ll, V., 1887, Vol. IV, 473–91Google Scholar: referred to below as F. followed by a page-number. Translated into English by Rouse, W. H. D. in The jātaka, ed. Cowell, C. B., 1957, Vol. IV, 293–304Google Scholar: referred to below as R. followed by a page-number. All English quotations are from this translation, but I am indebted to Professor Brough and Dr. P. S. Jaini for suggesting some emendations, which are noted where they occur.

¹⁰ Latt, U Minn, “Mainstreams in Burmese Literature”, in New Orient (Prague), I, 1960, no. 1, p. 16Google Scholar.

¹¹ Bhūridat-laṅkā-krī^ǁ (1484), Hanthawaddy, Rangoon, 1908Google Scholar.

² Emended. R. has: One day, as the chaplain approached his revenue-village, and entered by the southern gate.

¹³ Emended. R. (reading gahanaṁ) has: Disregarding the rest of the jungle. See his note, p. 294.

¹¹ Shin Raṭṭhasāra has taken this as a name, not an adjective.

⁵ Emended. R. has: My son, you are very young; your welfare is our care; grow older, and you shall embrace the religious life.

¹⁶ There are four instances of kā ^ǁ: vv. 2, 5, 173, 269; one of kui, indicating the object of a verb: v. 132; and one of tui ^|, indicating plural but not an ālup: v. 174.

¹⁷ Daw Khin Saw, loc. cit.

¹⁸ Mran-mā-cā-ññwan^ǁ-poṅ^ǁkyam, Government Printing, Rangoon, 1921, vol. 1, 165–182Google Scholar; = vv. 26–77, 173–206, 218–228.

¹⁹ Rhwe-cak-to-swā^ǁ to-lā^ǁ, ed. Mya Kyemon, Mya Ketu, Rangoon, 1957, v. 4Google Scholar.

²⁰ Buridat-zat-paung Pyo: Bhriáat-jat-pon^ǁ-pyui^|, Hanthawaddy, Rangoon, 1914Google Scholar, last verse of nigum ^ǁ.

²¹ Chu-ton^ǁ khan^ǁ-pyui^|, Hanthawaddy, Rangoon, 1922Google Scholar. See e.g. bhwai ^verbar on the Buddha v. 1, on the city vv. 5–17, ālup v .31.

²² Rakhuin man^ǁ sami^ǁ e-khyan^ǁ, Ranmapura, Moulmein, 1912Google Scholar. See e.g. short bhwai ^| on a city v. 2, on the Buddha v. 8.

²³ Hsu-taung-gan Pyo, see above; and Paratnidawgan Pyo, Parami-to-khan^ǁ-pyui (1491), Hanthawaddy, Rangoon, 1914Google Scholar.

²⁴ See U Tin Lwin, loc. cit.

²⁵ On these poems see Godakumbura, C. E., Sinhalese literature, Colombo, 1955, ch. XIV, XVGoogle Scholar; Wickremasinghe, Martin, Sinhalese literature, tr. Sarathchandra, E. R., Colombo, 1949, ch. III, IX, XGoogle Scholar.

²⁶ See the quotations from the colophons in various pyo given in Thaung, Ba, Ca-chui-to atthuppatti, Shumawa, Rangoon, 1962, p. 77Google Scholar. Capt. Ba Thaung also gives on p. 84 a quotation to show that after ten years under the instruction of his brother, Shin Ratthasara had other teachers who had themselves been trained under monks who had been to Ceylon.