U Pein Bridge (2): Learning History Through Childhood Poem
This oral narrative was collected by the students exploring the word concept - belief.
The seventy-two year old father of the fried-fish seller told us the following story related with the establishment of the U Pein bridge:
"I left the monastery long time ago but I remember what I learnt about the history of the U Pein bridge"
အင်းကအော်ညီး ဆောက်လုပ်ပြီး၊ ဉီးပိန် တံတားကြီး
အင်း၀ရေငံ တွင်းဂျီးစော်နံ၊ တောင်သမန် ရေချိုတွင်း သောက်ပါလေ့ ကို ရန်ကင်း ဘေးရန်က ရှင်း
ဘရူရာဇာ (ထန်းပင်) မည်သော ထန်းပဒေသာပင်များ ခြံရံလျက်ရှိသောနေရာများကို ရွေးချယ်ခဲ့သည်။
Inn Ka Awe Nye, Sauk-Lauk-Pyi, U Pein Tada gyi
Innwa yae-ngan Twin-gyi-sor –nyan, taungthaman yae-cho-twin thauk-par-lae Ko-Yan-Shin
Baru-yarzar (Htan-pin) mye-thaw Htan-pa-dae-thar-pin-myar chan-yan hlat shi thaw nay-yar-myar ko yawe-chae khae-the.
U Pein Bridge was established in 1213 (Myanmar Era)
The smell of water in Innwa Town is bad and the taste is salty but the taste of the taungthaman lake is very sweet and drinking it is safe.
A place where toddy palms are plenty of there was chosen (to establish a new palace, Amarapura).
" The king, Bodaw Phaya wanted to move away from Innwa also because he wanted to move away from the shadow of the thirty-three kings who had ruled there."
Observations from the field by Group 4: Htet Kaung Khant, Kadaw LaKkawng, Thet Htoo Aung, Kaung Sithu, and Nyan Linn Htet
