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For Burmese sources, see note at beginning of bibliography, vol. iii, p. 656. Inscriptions are rarer than in the period covered by that chapter, epigraphy apparently yielding, with the spread of literacy, to palm-leaf writing. *Hmannan Yazawin* stops with the fall of Ava in 1752, at which point the narrative is taken up by the portentously verbose *Konbaungset Yazawin* of nearly 2000 pages, published in 1905 by a Burmese officer in the provincial civil service; it is a compilation from official records and has not been translated; for its quality, see Harvey, *History of Burma*, p. 355. *Alaungpaya Ayedawpon* is a chronicle-biography of Alaungpaya.