Min Saw Hla ( my, မင်းစောလှ, ; 1532–1564) was king of
Arakan
Arakan ( or ) is a historic coastal region in Southeast Asia. Its borders faced the Bay of Bengal to its west, the Indian subcontinent to its north and Burma proper to its east. The Arakan Mountains isolated the region and made it accessi ...
from 1556 to 1564. At accession, he made his first wife
Saw Bon-Htut the chief queen but also married his father's chief queen
Saw Thanda
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. He ordered a massive building program which built and repaired dams, irrigation canals as well as improved the defenses of Mrauk-U and other key towns around the kingdom.
[Sandamala Linkara Vol. 2 1999: 46–47] In 1561, he commissioned the building of
Htukkanthein Temple
Htukkanthein ( my, ထုက္ကန့်သိမ်; ) is one of the most famous Buddhist temples in the ancient Arakanese city of Mrauk U, in Rakhine State, Western Myanmar. The name means "Cross-Beam Ordination Hall".
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[(Gutman 2001: 118) says the temple "is said to have been built in 1571 by King ]Min Phalaung
Min Phalaung ( my, မင်းဖလောင်း, ; also spelled Min Hpalaung; 27 February 1535 – ) was king of Arakan from 1572 to 1593. He presided over the continued rise of Arakan, begun under his father King Min Bin. He extended his ...
". But the ''Rakhine Razawin Thit
''Rakhine Razawin Thit'' ( my, ရခိုင် ရာဇဝင်သစ်, , Arakanese pronunciation: ) is a Burmese chronicle covering the history of Arakan from time immemorial to the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826). The author was ...
'' chronicle (Sandamala Linkara Vol. 2 1999: 46) says Htukkanthein was built by King Min Saw Hla in 923 ME (1561/62).
He tightened control of
Chittagong
Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...
and the kingdom's northern perimeter. In the early 1560s, he sent the army to
Tripura
Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east a ...
, whose ruler, according to Arakanese chronicles, submitted to Mrauk-U. He died in 1564 after a long illness. He had chosen his half-brother
Min Sekkya to succeed him, and married Sekkya to his own full sister Dhamma Dewi.
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Monarchs of Mrauk-U
1532 births
1564 deaths
16th century in the Mrauk-U Kingdom
16th-century Burmese monarchs