Saw Diga ( my, စောဒီကာ, ) was the father of King
Mohnyin Thado
Mohnyin Thado ( my, မိုးညှင်း သတိုး, ; 1379–1439) was king of Ava from 1426 to 1439. He is also known in Burmese history as Mohnyin Min Taya (မိုးညှင်း မင်းတရား, , "Righteous L ...
of
Ava.
[Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 61–62] He was a 14th-century governor of
Mye-Ne (present-day
Nyaung U
Nyaung-U ( my, ညောင်ဦးမြို့) is the administrative town of Nyaung-U Township of Nyaung-U District in the Mandalay Region of central Myanmar. It lies on the eastern bank of Ayeyarwaddy River. It is just 4 kilometers away ...
in central
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
). His descendants became kings of Ava down to 1527.
[Htin Aung 1967: 337] He was also a nine-times great-grandfather of King
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 ...
of the
Konbaung dynasty
The Konbaung dynasty ( my, ကုန်းဘောင်ခေတ်, ), also known as Third Burmese Empire (တတိယမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်) and formerly known as the Alompra dynasty (အလောင်းဘ ...
.
[Letwe Nawrahta 1961: 12]
Ancestry
The following is his ancestry according to the ''
Alaungpaya Ayedawbon
''Alaungpaya Ayedawbon'' ( my, အလောင်းဘုရား အရေးတော်ပုံ), also known as ''Alaung Mintayagyi Ayedawbon'' ( my, အလောင်း မင်းတရားကြီး အရေးတော်ပု ...
'' chronicle.
[ Note that his two times great-grandmother Pwa Gyi was a daughter of King ]Uzana of Pagan
Uzana ( my, ဥဇနာ, ; also known as Sithu III; 1213–1256) was king of Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1251 to 1256.Coedès 1968: 183 He assumed the regnal name "Śrī Tribhuvanāditya Dhammarājajayasūra" (ၐြီတြိဘု ...
, and his two times great-grandfather Yanda Pyissi was a son of Yazathingyan
Yazathingyan ( my, ရာဇသင်္ကြန်, ; 1263 – 1312/13) was a co-founder of Myinsaing Kingdom in present-day Central Burma (Myanmar).Coedès 1968: 209 As a senior commander in the Royal Army of the Pagan Empire, he, along wi ...
, the chief minister of Pagan.
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