Min Linka ( my, မင်း လင်္ကာ, ) was governor of
Pegu
Bago (formerly spelt Pegu; , ), formerly known as Hanthawaddy, is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar. It is located north-east of Yangon.
Etymology
The Burmese name Bago (ပဲခူး) is likely derived from the Mon langua ...
(Bago) from 1348 to 1353. Son of King
Saw Zein
Saw Zein ( my, စောဇိတ်, ; also known as Saw Zeik and Binnya Ran De; 1303–1330) was king of Martaban from 1323 to 1330. He inherited a newly independent kingdom from his elder brother Saw O but spent much of his reign putting down ...
of
Martaban
Mottama ( my, မုတ္တမမြို့, ; Muttama mnw, မုဟ်တၟံ, ; formerly Martaban) is a town in the Thaton District of Mon State, Myanmar. Located on the west bank of the Thanlwin river (Salween), on the opposite side ...
, the prince was appointed governor by his half-brother King
Binnya U
Binnya U ( mnw, ဗညာဥူ, my, ဗညားဦး, ; also known as Hsinbyushin; 1323–1384) was king of Martaban–Hanthawaddy from 1348 to 1384. His reign was marked by several internal rebellions and external conflicts. He survived th ...
. But he did not help his brother during the 1351–52 invasion of the kingdom by
Lan Na. He was defeated by his brother's forces after they had defeated the invasion. Linka was brought back to Martaban, and executed there.
Brief
Born 1327 in
Martaban
Mottama ( my, မုတ္တမမြို့, ; Muttama mnw, မုဟ်တၟံ, ; formerly Martaban) is a town in the Thaton District of Mon State, Myanmar. Located on the west bank of the Thanlwin river (Salween), on the opposite side ...
(Mottama),
[He was born sometime between 1325 and 1330. Per the '']Razadarit Ayedawbon
''Razadarit Ayedawbon'' ( my, ရာဇာဓိရာဇ် အရေးတော်ပုံ) is a Burmese chronicle covering the history of Ramanya from 1287 to 1421. The chronicle consists of accounts of court intrigues, rebellions, diplomati ...
'' (Pan Hla 2005: 39, 41), Saw Zein married his sister-in-law May Hnin Htapi after his accession in September 1323. The couple had two children: Mi Ma-Hsan and Min Linka before Saw Zein was assassinated April 1330. Min
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Linka was the second child of Queen
May Hnin Htapi
May Hnin Htapi ( my, မေနှင်းထပီ, ) was the chief queen consort of King Saw O of Martaban, and a senior queen consort of King Saw Zein of Martaban. She was the mother of King Saw E.
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The queen was a daughter of King Loe ...
and King
Saw Zein
Saw Zein ( my, စောဇိတ်, ; also known as Saw Zeik and Binnya Ran De; 1303–1330) was king of Martaban from 1323 to 1330. He inherited a newly independent kingdom from his elder brother Saw O but spent much of his reign putting down ...
of
Martaban
Mottama ( my, မုတ္တမမြို့, ; Muttama mnw, မုဟ်တၟံ, ; formerly Martaban) is a town in the Thaton District of Mon State, Myanmar. Located on the west bank of the Thanlwin river (Salween), on the opposite side ...
.
[Pan Hla 2005: 40] The prince had one full elder sister, Tala Mi Ma-Hsan;
[ two maternal half-siblings, King ]Saw E
Saw E Kan-Kaung ( my, စောအဲကံကောင်း, ; 1313/14–1330) was king of Martaban for 49 days in 1330. E was the last Martaban king to pledge allegiance to Sukhothai.
The eldest son of King Saw O (r. 1311–1323) was placed ...
(r. 1330) and May Hnin Aw-Kanya;[Pan Hla 2005: 38] and three paternal half-siblings, Mwei Ne, Princess-Regent Maha Dewi (r. 1383–1384) and King Binnya U
Binnya U ( mnw, ဗညာဥူ, my, ဗညားဦး, ; also known as Hsinbyushin; 1323–1384) was king of Martaban–Hanthawaddy from 1348 to 1384. His reign was marked by several internal rebellions and external conflicts. He survived th ...
(r. 1348–1384).[
In 1348, the prince was appointed governor of ]Pegu
Bago (formerly spelt Pegu; , ), formerly known as Hanthawaddy, is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar. It is located north-east of Yangon.
Etymology
The Burmese name Bago (ပဲခူး) is likely derived from the Mon langua ...
(Bago) with the title of Smin Nyi Kaung Thein (သမိန် ညီကောင်သိန်, ) by Binnya U, who had just ascended the throne.[Pan Hla 2005: 45] It was an important appointment as the new king, who was still consolidating power, needed someone he could trust in Pegu, located in the geographic center of the Mon-speaking kingdom. The new king also married Linka to Mwei Daw, daughter of Chief Minister Than Bon.[
Linka, however, was not loyal to his brother. He did not send any help to U in 1351 when the king faced a major rebellion at ]Donwun
Donwun ( my, ဒုန်ဝန်းမြို့, ; also spelled Don Wun; also known as Wun), located 16km north of Thaton
Thaton (; mnw, သဓီု ) is a town in Mon State, in southern Myanmar on the Tenasserim plains. Thaton lies a ...
, just 100 km north of Martaban, and half-way between Pegu and Martaban. The rebellion was backed by the eastern Tai
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-speaking kingdom of Lan Na,[Per (Fernquest 2006: 4), the invasion is not listed in the ''Chaing Mai Chronicle'', and the invaders may have come from another Tai-Shan state. However, the ''Razadarit Ayedawbon'' chronicle (Pan Hla 2005: 55–56, 62–63) consistently portrays Chiang Mai as a threat or the backer of rebellions well into the 1370s.] which sent an 8000-strong invasion force. The dry season invasion penetrated deep into Martaban territory but the invaders overstretched, and were decisively defeated by U near Martaban.[Pan Hla 2005: 45–46] After the victory, U was able to consolidate support amongst his vassals, who wanted to be on the winning side. Linka was now in trouble. He had not consolidated support in the Pegu province itself. In the following dry season of 1352–1353,[Inferred from the reporting in the chronicle ''Razadarit Ayedawbon'' (Pan Hla 2005: 45–47). The chronicle only says that U sent a force to reclaim Pegu soon after the Lan Na invasion, which began in 713 ME (1351/52). However, by the time Linka was captured, he already had three children by Mwei Daw, whom he married in late 1348. Therefore, it is probable that he was captured in the following dry season of 1352/53. Furthermore, (Htin Aung 1967: 38) says Binnya U had overcome rival claimants only by 1353; (Harvey 1925: 368) says Binnya U became king in 1353.] U sent an army to reclaim Pegu. The operation was successful.[Phayre 1967: 67][Pan Hla 2005: 47]
Linka, along with his wife and three children, was brought back to Martaban. At the capital, U took his wife, who became Queen Thiri Maya Dewi, and ordered his execution.[ Thiri Maya Dewi and U later had a son, the future king Razadarit.][ U treated Linka's children well. He appointed Linka's only son, ]Nyi Kan-Kaung
Nyi Kan-Kaung ( mnw, ညီကာံကံင်, my, ညီကံကောင်း or ညီဂံဂေါင်, ; 1352–1388/89) was a Hanthawaddy royal and governor of Dala–Twante from 1370/71 to 1388/89. A stepson of King Binnya U, ...
, governor of Dala–Twante 1370.[Pan Hla 2005: 60][(Pan Hla 2005: 178): Nyi Kan-Kaung was executed by Razadarit in 750 ME (1388/89).]
Ancestry
Linka was a grandnephew of the founder of the dynasty King Wareru
Wareru ( mnw, ဝါရေဝ်ရောဝ်, my, ဝါရီရူး, ; also known as Wagaru; 20 March 1253 – 14 January 1307) was the founder of the Martaban Kingdom, located in present-day Myanmar (Burma). By using both diplomatic a ...
from his father's side, and a grandson of King Loe Thai
Loe Thai ( th, เลอไทย, ) was the fourth king of the Sukhothai Kingdom (a historical kingdom of Thailand) from 1298 to 1323. He was preceded by his father Ram Khamhaeng the Great until the throne was usurped by his cousin Ngua Nam Thum ...
of Sukhothai from his mother's side.[See (Pan Hla 2005: 40) for Linka's parents, King Saw Zeik and Queen May Hnin Htapi. See (Pan Hla 2005: 38, 39) for Htapi's father, King of Sukhothai, who in 1323 was Loe Thai. See (Pan Hla 2005: 37) for Saw Zeik's parents, Min Bala and Hnin U Yaing. See (Pan Hla 2005: 16) for Hnin U Yaing being Wareru's younger sister.]
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