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The Journal of Burma Studies The Journal of Burma Studies Volume 10 2005/06 Featuring Articles by: Alexandra Green Chie Ikeya Yin Ker Jacques P. Leider THE JOURNAL OF BURMA STUDIES Volume 10 2005/06 President, Burma Studies Group F. K. Lehman General Editor Catherine Raymond Center for Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University Issue Editor Christopher A. Miller Production Editor Caroline Quinlan Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University Editorial Assistance Sarah Belkarz Liz Poppens Denius Patrick A. McCormick Alicia Turner Design and Typesetting Colleen Anderson Subscriptions Beth Bjorneby © 2006 Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois USA ISSN # 1094-799X The Journal of Burma Studies is an annual scholarly journal jointly sponsored by the Burma Studies Group (Association for Asian Studies), the Center for Burma Studies (Northern Illinois University), and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Northern Illinois University). Articles are refereed by professional peers. Original scholarly manuscripts should be sent to: Editor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. E-mail: [email protected]. Subscriptions are $16 per volume delivered book rate (airmail, add $9 per volume). Members of the Burma Studies Group receive the journal as part of their $30 annual membership. Send check or money order in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank made out to Northern Illinois University to the Center for Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. Major credit cards accepted. Subscriptions / E-mail: bbjorn@ niu.edu; tel: (815) 753-0512; fax: (815) 753-1776. Back issues / E- mail: [email protected]; tel: (815) 756-1981; fax: (815) 753-1776. For abstracts of previously published articles, visit The Journal of Burma Studies Web site: http://www.grad.niu.edu/Burma/publications. htm. The Journal of Burma Studies is abstracted or indexed in the following: America: History and Life; Bibliography of Asian Studies; Historical Abstracts; MLA International Bibliography. THE JOURNAL OF BURMA STUDIES Volume 10 2005/06 Articles DEEP CHANGE? 1 Burmese Wall Paintings from the Eleventh to the Nineteenth Centuries Alexandra Green THE ‘TRADITIONAL’ HIGH STATUS OF 51 WOMEN IN BURMA: A Historical Reconsideration Chie Ikeya MODERN BURMESE PAINTINg 83 AccORDING TO BAGYI AUNG SOE Yin Ker SPECIALIsts FOR RITUAL, 159 MAGIC, AND DEVOTION: The Court Brahmins (Punna) of the Konbaung Kings (1752–1885) Jacques P. Leider Contributors Alexandra Green is curator of Asian art and acting museum director at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She has an MA and PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In addition to researching the Denison collection of Burmese textiles and Buddhist material, she has focused upon eighteenth-century wall paintings in Burma, and is the author of several articles on the topic. Other publications include Burma: Art and Archaeology published by the British Museum Press in 2002. Current research interests include a nineteenth-century Burmese manuscript in the Denison collection and foreign influences upon murals in Burma. She may be reached at [email protected]. Chie Ikeya is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She investigates the fundamental links between social and economic change, colonial representations of women, nationalist discourse, and the development of reforms and protest movements on behalf of women and against gender-based discrimination. Additionally, Ikeya documents gender-specific relations of power in pre-colonial Burma through a survey of unpublished Burmese legal texts and court records from the nineteenth century, and evaluates the impact of British and Japanese imperialism on local ideas and practices. She may be reached at [email protected]. Yin Ker was trained in art history at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris). Currently in Asia, she is furthering her understanding of twentieth-century art in Burma/Myanmar and the region, with particular interest in the construction of art, the artist, and art history, as well as modern and contemporary visual arts of Buddhist inspiration. She assists in tutoring arts of Asia at the Nanyang Technological University, and oversees the collection of modern Burmese art at the Singapore Art Museum. She may be reached at [email protected]. Jacques P. Leider is an historian and research scholar at the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient/EFEO (Paris). Since 2002, he has been head of the EFEO Centre in Yangon (Myanmar/Burma) where he initiated a project to collect and digitize Arakanese palm-leaf manuscripts and stone inscriptions. For many years, his research focus has been the history and historiography of the Buddhist kingdom of Mrauk U. In line with the EFEO tradition of studying native non-canonical Buddhist texts and traditions, his recent research has dealt with the social life of the monkhood. Leider teaches in his native Luxembourg and at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He may be reached at [email protected]. Specialists FoR Ritual, Magic , AnD DEvotion: The Court Brahmins (Punna) of the Konbaung Kings (1752–1885) Jacques P. Leider Though they formed an essential part of Burmese court life, the Brahmins have hitherto attracted no scholarly interest outside Burma. Based on a study of royal orders and administrative compendia as well as recent Burmese research, this article1 gives for the first time an overview of the origins, the ritual and ceremonial functions and the organization of the punna. The main section is preceded by an overview of sources and research questions. Special emphasis is given in the last part to the noteworthy role played by punna in King Bodawphaya’s reform policies. Introduction For life in this world, Buddhism holds an ethical message for monks and for laypeople alike. But the rituals it produced proved insufficient for such earthly needs as the consecration of a king and the engineering of political questions by supernatural means. For such needs, the Buddhist courts of Southeast Asia heavily borrowed from the Indian tradition.2 As generally acknowledged, Brahmins played an essential role in the ritual of king making (ablution ceremonies [abhiseka]) at the courts of the Buddhist kings, where Brahmins were also employed as astrologers. Their functions were related to the transmission 1 This article is the revised and extended version of a paper presented at the eight- eenth European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies at Lund University (July 6–9, 2004). The piece integrates a chapter on the role played by the punna in King Bodawphaya’s reform policies, which was presented at the Burma Studies conference (October 22–24, 2004) at Northern Illinois University. I appreciate critical comments made by Burmese and Indian colleagues, the two anonymous reviewers, and the editor as well as Gustaaf Houtman and Alexei Kirichenko, all of whom I thank. I particularly acknowledge what I learned during conversations with Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Justin McDaniel. 2 Cf. Yi Yi (1982:100): “I use the word ‘Indian’ because the ideas borrowed were nei- ther purely Hindu nor Buddhist, but a mixture of true Hindu rituals together with Hindu-influenced Buddhist ideas, Hindu ceremonies modified to suit Buddhist needs and purely Buddhist theories.” Journal of Burma Studies, Volume 10 159 Jacques P. Leider and the practice of special knowledge imported from India. In Burma (Myanmar) and Arakan (Rakhaing), these ‘Brahmins’ were generally called punna. Though their presence at court is a well-known fact, they have as yet attracted no particular scholarly interest. This is not a thesis paper, and its content does not aspire to present a comprehensive analysis. Regarding a field of study that has hitherto received little attention, the aim is to provide a close view of the punna as an object of study in the context of the Burmese kingship. This calls for a short description of available sources and a sketch of methodological and research questions. A further objective is to give a description of the organization and the functions of the punna during the last hundred years of the Burmese monarchy. Finally, special emphasis will be given to the role of court Brahmins under King Bodawphaya (1782–1819), a chapter that should contribute to the study of an important reign that is, the author hopes, finally receiving the scholarly attention it deserves. Punna as an object of Research and Study Brahmins have served at the courts of the Burmese kings from the Pagan period to the fall of the monarchy in 1885.3 They very likely played an important role in the Pre-Pagan city states such as Thare-khettaya (Sri Kshetra), Halingyi, and Thaton. Brahmins certainly lived at the courts of the little explored city-states of early Rakhaing, such as Dhaññawati and Vesali, where artifacts have been variously described as Hindu and/ or Mahayanist. Several Burmese terms have been used to refer to these court Brahmins, depending on their functions. References most commonly found in the early modern period employ “punna.”4 This term will be used throughout this paper to 3 On the possible origins of the Brahmins in Pagan and later arrivals, see Bo Ma (1998:7). 4 One term found for the very early period is gavampate. Another one that will be intro- duced below is huya (or hura), which refers to a Brahmin astrologer. A distinction was made between a huya phyu (white huya), an Indian Brahmin astrologer; and a huya nyo (brown huya), a Burmese Brahmin astrologer. 160 Journal of Burma Studies, Volume 10 Specialists for Ritual, Magic, and Devotion collectively refer to those who served as specialists for ritual ceremonies, for magical devices based on a textual knowledge, and for devotional rites to Indian deities at the Burmese and Arakanese courts. The conventional use of the term also includes family members.
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