ABSTRACT
Bureng naung, the Branginoco of the Portuguese, had effectually broken the power of the Shans, and had he been content with the achievement, and devoted the remainder of his long reign to consolidating his kingdom, he would probably have founded a much stronger and more permanent kingdom than he actually did. In 1558, Bureng Naung marched to Zimme, conquered that, and made the King a tributary. The King of that country was known to have four white elephants, and Bureng Naung was bent on getting at least one of them. Bureng Naung had no fleet, so any King in Ceylon was well out of his reach, and could run risks of incurring his wrath which those accessible by land would scarcely venture on. Bureng Naung was succeeded by his eldest son, called in the Talaing chronicle Nanda Bureng, and in the Burmese chronicle Gna-su-Daraga.
