''Rakhine Razawin Thit'' ( my, ရခိုင် ရာဇဝင်သစ်, ,
Arakanese pronunciation: ) is a
Burmese chronicle covering the
history of Arakan from time immemorial to the
First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826). The author was Ven. Sandamala Linkara ( pi, Candamālālaṅkāra), the ''
Sayadaw
A sayadaw ( my, ဆရာတော်, ; , and alternatively spelled ''hsayadaw'', ''sayado'', ''sayāḍo'' or ''sayāḍaw'') is a Burmese Buddhist title used to reference the senior monk or abbot of a monastery. Some distinguished sayadaws wo ...
'' (Chief Abbot) of Dakhina Vihara Rama
Buddhist Monastery in
Ranbye Kyun in then
British Burma
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
. Published in 1931, it is a compilation of all extant prior Arakanese chronicles in a single narrative.
[Sandamala Linkara Vol. 1 1997: 12–13] The original 1931 publication consisted of seven volumes. The first four volumes were published in a single enlarged volume in 1997 and the remaining three were published in another enlarged volume in 1999.
[See publication information sections in (Sandamala Linkara 1997) and (Sandamala Linkara 1999).]
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