Ingapu ( my, အင်္ဂပူမြို့) is a town in the

Ayeyarwady Division Ayeyarwady Region ( my, ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး , , ; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division), is a region of Myanmar, occupying the delta region of the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy River). It is bor ...

of south-west

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. It is the seat of the

Ingapu Township Ingapu Township ( my, အင်္ဂပူမြို့နယ်) is a township of Myanaung District in the Ayeyarwady Division of Myanmar. It is located in southern Myanaung District bordering Kyangin Township to the north. To the south, it bo ...

in the

Myanaung District Myanaung District is a district of the Ayeyarwady Region in Myanmar. The Myanaung District is a newer district grouping three townships formerly part of Hinthada District. The main administrative GAD office was opened on July 1st, 2022. The Dist ...

located along the

Ngawun River The Ngaun were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland. Country Norman Tindale calculated that the Ngaun had a territorial estate extending over . They were present at Iffley, and eastwards as far as the Gregory Range and Saxb ...

History

The

lost city A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world. The locations of many lost citi ...

described as Pinle Pyu () is recorded as being located next to the sea. Unlike many other small Pyu sites, the city is speculated to be large in size located downstream from the

Sri Ksetra Kingdom , conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Sri Ksetra , common_name = Kingdom of Sri Ksetra , era = Classical Antiquity , status = City-state , event_start = Founding of Kingdom , year_start = c. 3rd to 9th century CE , date_start = , ...

. Some archaeologist believe that a walled ancient religious complex 15 miles west of Ingapu may be the location of Pinle Pyu, one of the lost

Pyu city-states , conventional_long_name = Pyu city-states , common_name = Pyu City States , era = Classical antiquity , status = City , event_start = Earliest Pyu presence in Upper Burma , year_start = c. 2nd century BCE , date_start = , event_en ...

. Historians who studied the site in 2009 concluded the site may be a Pyu site based on the use of

Brahmi script Brahmi (; ; ISO: ''Brāhmī'') is a writing system of ancient South Asia. "Until the late nineteenth century, the script of the Aśokan (non-Kharosthi) inscriptions and its immediate derivatives was referred to by various names such as 'lath' o ...

, a script that dates towards the third century BC, and the architectural similarities to other Pyu sites. The site is currently a religious site owned by the clergy of the Kyapyin Religious Zone. The ancient ruin was excavated in 2014 dated to determine if the 2,000-year-old artifacts were of the Pyu culture or not. However, more evidence and investigation is required to analyze the ancient artifacts found in the site and from nearby sites. The site has faced challenges with becoming a protected site. In the 2000s, an area that may have been an ancient elephant stockade was reclaimed by a company and destroyed during development. Ingapu, the modern town, was named as one of the 32 surrounding villages of

Pathein Pathein (, ; mnw, ဖာသီ, ), formerly called Bassein, is the largest city and the capital of the Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar (Burma). It is located 190 km (120 mi) west of Yangon within Pathein Township on the bank of the Pathei ...

by the ancient king Samuddha Gotha's wife Omar Dhanti. By the time of the Konbaung Dynasty the group of villages was known as Okpho when it was given to Thihaboh Min after

Alaungpaya Alaungpaya ( my, အလောင်းဘုရား, ; also spelled Alaunghpaya or Alaung-Phra; 11 May 1760) was the founder of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). By the time of his death from illness during his campaign in Siam, this f ...

's conquests. The name Okhpo originates, by legend, from the village's role baking bricks for the

Shwemokhtaw Pagoda Shwemokhtaw Pagoda ( my, ရွှေမုဋ္ဌောစေတီ) is a Buddhist pagoda in Pathein, Myanmar (formerly Bassein, Burma). The pagoda is bounded by Merchant St, Strand, Mahabandoola and Shwezedi Roads. At the southern pavilion o ...

in Pathein during the time of Omar Dhanti. The town was renamed in 1852 to its ancient name of Ingapu after the

Second Anglo-Burmese War The Second Anglo-Burmese War or the Second Burma War ( my, ဒုတိယ အင်္ဂလိပ် မြန်မာ စစ် ; 5 April 185220 January 1853) was the second of the Anglo-Burmese Wars, three wars fought between the Konbaung dy ...

by the British to distinguish it from

Okpho Okpho (; also spelt Okpo) is a small town and seat of Okpho Township, Tharrawaddy District, in the Bago Region of southern-central Myanmar. It lies south of Gyobingauk and north of Minhla. It contains a hospital, a pagoda, and an open ground in t ...

in Bago Region.

References

Populated places in Ayeyarwady Region Township capitals of Myanmar {{Ayeyarwady-geo-stub