A Burmese tract on kingship: political theory in the 1782 manuscript of Manugye

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"The eleven lists on kingship which we translate and discuss are taken from a manuscript of the Manugye dhammathat which was completed on 25 June 1782. We shall refer to it as B.1782. Manugye, the best known of the surviving Burmese dhammathats (law texts), was compiled in the 1750s during the reign of Alaungpaya (1752?60), the founder of the Konbaung dynasty (1752?1885)..."

Creator/author: 

Ryuji Okudaira and Andrew Huxley

Source/publisher: 

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (64 (2)

Date of Publication: 

2001-06-00

Date of entry: 

2014-11-10

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English

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