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Shin Myat Hla Of Pakhan
Shin Myat Hla ( my, ရှင်မြတ်လှ, ) was Duchess of Pakhan from 1426 to .Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 274, 277 She was the only sister of King Mohnyin Thado (r. 1426–1439), and the mother of Queen Min Hla Nyet of Ava.Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 272 She had the same name as her sister-in-law Queen Shin Myat Hla of Ava.(Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 61) gives the personal name of King Thado's only sister as Min Hla Myat. (Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 272) corrects the name as Shin Myat Hla, the same personal name as Thado's chief queen's. (Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 63) accepts ''Yazawin Thit's'' correction. Ancestry Shin Myat Hla was descended from the Pinya and ultimately Pagan Paganism (from classical Latin ''pāgānus'' "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism. ... royal lines. Notes References Bibliography ...
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Shin Sawbu
Shin Sawbu ( my, ရှင်စောပု, ; mnw, မိစဴဗု; 1394–1471) was queen regnant of Hanthawaddy from 1454 to 1471. Queen Shin Sawbu is also known as Binnya Thau ( mnw, ဗညားထောဝ်; mnw, ဨကရာဇ်ဗြဲဗညာထဴ) or Old Queen in Mon. Queen Shin Sawbu and Queen Jamadevi of Haripunjaya are the two most famous among the small number of queens who ruled in mainland Southeast Asia.Guillon 1999: 169 Early life Shin Sawbu was the only daughter of the Mon King Razadarit who had two sons as well. She was born on 11 February 1394 (Wednesday, 12th waxing of Tabaung of 755 ME) to the junior queen Thuddhamaya (). At birth she was given the name ( in Sanskrit and Pali). At age 20 she was married to Binnya Bwe (Smin Chesao), Razadarit's nephew and had a son, Binnya Waru and two daughters, Netaka Taw and Netaka Thin. Her husband died when she was just 25. Residence at Ava In 1421, Sawbu's father King Razadarit died. The king's elde ...
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Pagan Kingdom
The Kingdom of Pagan ( my, ပုဂံခေတ်, , ; also known as the Pagan Dynasty and the Pagan Empire; also the Bagan Dynasty or Bagan Empire) was the first Burmese kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern-day Myanmar. Pagan's 250-year rule over the Irrawaddy River, Irrawaddy valley and its periphery laid the foundation for the ascent of Burmese language and Burmese culture, culture, the spread of Bamar people, Bamar ethnicity in Upper Myanmar, and the growth of Theravada Buddhism in Myanmar and in mainland Southeast Asia.Lieberman 2003: 88–123 The kingdom grew out of a small 9th-century settlement at Bagan, Pagan (present-day Bagan) by the Bamar, Mranma/Burmans, who had recently entered the Irrawaddy valley from the Kingdom of Nanzhao. Over the next two hundred years, the small principality gradually grew to absorb its surrounding regions until the 1050s and 1060s when King Anawrahta founded the Pagan Empire, for the first time unifying und ...
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Hmannan Yazawin
''Hmannan Maha Yazawindawgyi'' ( my, မှန်နန်း မဟာ ရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး, ; commonly, ''Hmannan Yazawin''; known in English as the '' Glass Palace Chronicle'') is the first official chronicle of Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). It was compiled by the Royal Historical Commission between 1829 and 1832.Hla Pe 1985: 39–40 The compilation was based on several existing chronicles and local histories, and the inscriptions collected on the orders of King Bodawpaya, as well as several types of poetry describing epics of kings. Although the compilers disputed some of the earlier accounts, they by and large retained the accounts given ''Maha Yazawin'', the standard chronicle of Toungoo Dynasty. The chronicle, which covers events right up to 1821, right before the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826), was not written purely from a secular history perspective but rather to provide "legitimation according to religious criteria" of the monarchy. ...
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Yazawin Thit
''Maha Yazawin Thit'' ( my, မဟာ ရာဇဝင် သစ်, ; ; also known as ''Myanmar Yazawin Thit'' or ''Yazawin Thit'') is a national chronicle of Burma (Myanmar). Completed in 1798, the chronicle was the first attempt by the Konbaung court to update and check the accuracy of ''Maha Yazawin'', the standard chronicle of the previous Toungoo Dynasty. Its author Twinthin Taikwun Maha Sithu consulted several existing written sources, and over 600 stone inscriptions collected from around the kingdom between 1783 and 1793.Thaw Kaung 2010: 44–49 It is the first historical document in Southeast Asia compiled in consultation with epigraphic evidence.Woolf 2011: 416 The chronicle updates the events up to 1785, and contains several corrections and critiques of earlier chronicles. However, the chronicle was not well received, and ultimately rejected by the king and the court who found the critiques of earlier chronicles excessively harsh.Thaw Kaung 2010: 50–51 It became kn ...
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Maha Yazawin
The ''Maha Yazawin'', fully the ''Maha Yazawindawgyi'' ( my, မဟာ ရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး, ) and formerly romanized as the ,. is the first national chronicle of Burma/Myanmar. Completed in 1724 by U Kala, a historian at the Toungoo court, it was the first chronicle to synthesize all the ancient, regional, foreign and biographic histories related to Burmese history. Prior to the chronicle, the only known Burmese histories were biographies and comparatively brief local chronicles. The chronicle has formed the basis for all subsequent histories of the country, including the earliest English language histories of Burma written in the late 19th century.Myint-U 2001: 80Lieberman 1986: 236 The chronicle starts with the beginning of the current world cycle according to Buddhist tradition and the Buddhist version of ancient Indian history, and proceeds "with ever increasing detail to narrate the political story of the Irrawaddy basin from quasi-legendary dynasti ...
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Mway Medaw Of Pinya
Mway Medaw ( my, မွေးမယ်တော်, ) was a queen consort of King Kyawswa I of Pinya.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 360 Of Pagan royalty, she was one of the two principal queens consort of Kyawswa, and she was known as the Queen of the Northern Palace.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 380 She was a paternal aunt of King Swa Saw Ke of Ava. Ancestry The following is her ancestry as reported by the ''Hmannan Yazawin'' chronicle. She was the youngest child of King Kyawswa of Pagan Kyawswa ( my, ကျော်စွာ, ; 2 August 1260 – 10 May 1299) was king of the Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1289 to 1297. Son of the last sovereign king of Pagan Narathihapate, Kyawswa was one of many "kings" that emerged afte ... and his chief queen Saw Soe. References Bibliography * * {{Queens consort of Myinsaing–Pinya Pagan dynasty Queens consort of Pinya 13th-century Burmese women 14th-century Burmese women ...
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Saw Hnit
Saw Hnit ( my, စောနှစ်, ; also spelled စောနစ်, , Saw Nit or Min Lulin; 1283–1325) was a viceroy of Pagan (Bagan) from 1297 to 1325 under the suzerain of Myinsaing Kingdom in central Burma (Myanmar). He was a son of the Mongol vassal king Kyawswa, and a grandson of Narathihapate, the last sovereign king of Pagan dynasty. Saw Hnit succeeded as "king" after his father was forced to abdicate the throne by the three brothers of Myinsaing in December 1297.Than Tun 1959: 119–120 The brothers put him on the throne, officially styled as the king of Pagan, but essentially their viceroy.Coedès 1968: 210-211 His authority amounted to the region around the Pagan city.Htin Aung 1967: 65–71 The viceroy gave his first audience on 8 May 1299. He raised his father's chief queen Saw Thitmahti as his own chief queen.Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 257 Two days later, the three brothers executed his brother Theingapati and his father Kyawswa. King Swa Saw Ke of Ava (r. ...
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Mi Saw U
, image = , caption = , reign = 7 February 1313 – February 1325 , coronation = , succession = Chief queen consort of Pinya , predecessor = new office , successor = Atula Maha Dhamma Dewi , suc-type = Successor , reign1 = 17 December 1297 – 7 February 1313 , coronation1 = 20 October 1309 , succession1 = Chief queen consort of Pinle , predecessor1 = ''new office'' , successor1 = ''disestablished'' , reign2 = 1290s – 17 December 1297 , coronation2 = , succession2 = Queen of the Central Palace of Pagan , predecessor2 = ''vacant'' , successor2 = ''disestablished'' , spouse = Kyawswa (1289–1297) Thihathu (1297–1325) , issue = Uzana I Kyawswa I Nawrahta , issue-link = , full name = , house ...
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Thihathu
Thihathu ( my, သီဟသူ, ; 1265–1325) was a co-founder of the Myinsaing Kingdom, and the founder of the Pinya Kingdom in today's central Burma (Myanmar).Coedès 1968: 209 Thihathu was the youngest and most ambitious of the three brothers that successfully defended central Burma from Mongol invasions in 1287 and in 1300–01. He and his brothers toppled the regime at Pagan in 1297, and co-ruled central Burma. After his eldest brother Athinkhaya's death in 1310, Thihathu pushed aside the middle brother Yazathingyan, and took over as the sole ruler of central Burma. His decision to designate his adopted son Uzana I heir-apparent caused his eldest biological son, Saw Yun to set up a rival power center in Sagaing in 1315. Although Saw Yun nominally remained loyal to his father, after Thihathu's death in 1325, the two houses of Myinsaing officially became rival kingdoms in central Burma. Early life Thihathu was born in 1265 to a prominent family in Myinsaing in Central Burm ...
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Atula Maha Dhamma Dewi Of Pinya
Atula Maha Dhamma Dewi ( my, အတုလ မဟာဓမ္မဒေဝီ, ; pi, Atulamahādhammadevī) was the chief queen consort of King Uzana I of Pinya.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 377 Uzana I was her half-brother. She was a paternal aunt of King Swa Saw Ke of Ava. Ancestry The following is her ancestry as reported by the ''Hmannan Yazawin ''Hmannan Maha Yazawindawgyi'' ( my, မှန်နန်း မဟာ ရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး, ; commonly, ''Hmannan Yazawin''; known in English as the '' Glass Palace Chronicle'') is the first official chronicle of Konbaung ...'' chronicle.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 360 Her personal name was Saw Min Ya (စောမင်းရာ). References Bibliography * {{Queens consort of Myinsaing–Pinya Pagan dynasty Queens consort of Pinya 13th-century Burmese women 14th-century Burmese women ...
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Uzana I Of Pinya
, image = , caption = , reign = February 1325 – 1 September 1340 , coronation = , succession = King of Pinya , predecessor = Thihathu , successor = Sithu , suc-type = Successor , reg-type = Chief Minister , regent = Ananda Pyissi , spouse = Atula Maha Dhamma Dewi , issue = Sithu Min Oo Thihapate Saw Pa Oh Mway Medaw , issue-link = , full name = Anawrahta Maha Dipati , house = Myinsaing , father = Kyawswa of Pagan , mother = Mi Saw U , birth_date = June 1298 Tuesday, Waso 660 ME , birth_place = Pinle, Myinsaing Regency , death_date = 1356/1357 (aged 58) 718 ME , death_place = Mekkhaya, Pinya Kingdom , date of burial = , place of burial = , religion = Theravada Buddhi ...
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Atula Sanda Dewi Of Pinya
Atula Sanda Dewi ( my, အတုလ စန္ဒာဒေဝီ, ; pi, Atulacandādevī) was the chief queen consort of King Kyawswa I of Pinya.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 380 The queen, whose personal name was "Nan Lon Me" (နန်းလုံးမယ်), was a granddaughter of King Kyawswa of Pagan. She was the mother of the last three kings of Pinya: Uzana II, Kyawswa II and Narathu , image = Dhammayangyi Temple at Bagan,Myanmar.jpg , caption = Dhammayangyi Temple built by Narathu , reign = 1167 – February 1171 , coronation = , succession = King of Burma .... Notes References Bibliography * {{Queens consort of Myinsaing–Pinya Pagan dynasty Queens consort of Pinya 14th-century Burmese women ...
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