The chronicle consists of accounts of court intrigues, rebellions, diplomatic missions, wars etc.
It is likely the earliest extant text regarding the history of the Mon people in Lower Burma,[2] probably the only surviving portion of the original Mon language chronicle, which was destroyed in 1565 when a rebellion burned down Pegu (Bago).
[3] Four oldest palm-leaf manuscript copies, conjecturally dated to the mid 18th century, of the original Binnya Dala translation have survived.
In all, nine slightly different versions of the chronicle existed according to a 1968 analysis by Nai Pan Hla.
[2] Pan Hla re-translated one of the versions back to Mon in 1958.