Among
the many rivers of Myanmar, the Ayeyarwaddy River (formerly known as
Irrawaddy River) is the most important and by far the largest. An about
1,550 km (960 miles) long, with a total drainage area of about 158,700
square miles (411,000 square km), the river also serves as a commercial
waterway to the whole nation stretching from the north to the south
before meeting the Andaman Sea. People believed that the name
"Ayeyarwaddy" meaning "elephant river" came from a Sanskrit word
airavati".ကေလးမ်ားသည္ လူႀကီးမ်ားထက္ပုိ၍ စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ တတ္ၾကသည္။ တစ္နည္းအားျဖင့္ လူႀကီးမ်ားထက္ပုိ၍ စိတ္ကူးဥာဏ္ကြန္႔ျမဴးတတ္ၾကသည္ဟု ဆုိရပါလိမ့္မည္။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္လည္း ကေလးတုိ႔၏ အိပ္မက္သည္ လူႀကီးတုိ႔၏ အိပ္မက္ထက္ပုိ၍ လွပဆန္းၾကယ္ေလ့ရွိသည္။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္လည္း ကေလးတုိ႔၏ အိပ္မက္ကုိ လက္မခံႏုိင္ေသာ လူႀကီးမ်ားက ရယ္ေမာကာ ေမ့ေပ်ာက္ပစ္လုိက္ၾကျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ အေဖကေတာ့ အျခားလူႀကီးမ်ားလုိ သား၏ အိပ္မက္ကုိ မေမ့ႏုိင္ခဲ့ေပ။
