Ridiculous Mon Paradigm Quotation #1

Regarding Pagan's conquest of Thaton in the Burmese chronicle, Aung-thwin asks:

"...since there is no epigraphic evidence for either the event or the place, when, how, and why did the story become part of Burma's chronicle tradition?"

1. All history enters the chronicle via inscriptions? This is ridiculous.

2. Inscriptional history is a history of only certain kinds of events. Most inscriptions record religious donations. Most chronicle narratives are records of warfare.

3. Almost all early modern Burmese history is chronicle history that has no reference in an inscription.

4. Aung-thwin is working here with worn out colonial era assumptions that the only history worth writing is inscriptional history.