The Glass Palace Chronicle traces the origins of the Pagan kingdom to India during the 9th century BC,more than three centuries before the Buddha was born. Prince Abhiraja () of Kosala () of the Sakya clan () – the clan of the Buddha – left his homeland with followers in 850 BC after military defeat by the neighbouring kingdom of Panchala (). They settled at Tagaung in present-day northern Burma and founded a kingdom. The Chronicle does not claim that he had arrived in an empty land, only that he was the first king.