Excerpt from Journal of the Pali Text Society, 1896 The whole collection of mss. That belonged to the King's Library at Mandalay seems to have consisted of about numbers (the highest number I have met with is and a few mss. Are unnumbered), but of these more than 800 are now missing, having either been looted during the war, or lent out at the time when the Library was removed to the India Office. The collection consists of three sorts of mss.: some are purely Pali mss., some purely Burmese, and some mixed Pali and Burmese, viz., commentaries on Pali books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.