Shwe Einthi ( my, ရွှေအိမ်သည်, ; also Shwe Einsi, ) was a princess of
Pagan Dynasty
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-da ...
of
Burma
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 Wells explai ...
(Myanmar). She was the only daughter of King
Kyansittha
Kyansittha ( my, ကျန်စစ်သား, ; also spelt as Kyanzittha or Hti-Hlaing Shin; 1030 – 1112/13) was king of Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1084 to 1112/13, and is considered one of the greatest Burmese monarchs. He cont ...
(r. 1084–1113), and the mother of King
Alaungsithu
Alaungsithu or Sithu I ( my, အလောင်းစည်သူ ; also Cansu I; 1090–1167) was king of Pagan Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1112/13 to 1167. Sithu's reign was a prosperous one in which Pagan was an integral part of in-land a ...
.
[Harvey 1925: 39]
The princess is best remembered in
Burmese history
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for her failed love affair with the prince of
Pateikkaya, a kingdom, believed to be in
East Bengal
ur,
, common_name = East Bengal
, status = Province of the Dominion of Pakistan
, p1 = Bengal Presidency
, flag_p1 = Flag of British Bengal.svg
, s1 = East ...
or in eastern
Chin Hills
The Chin Hills are a range of mountains in Chin State, northwestern Burma, Burma (Myanmar), that extends northward into India's Manipur state.
Geography
The highest peak in the Chin Hills is Khonu Msung, or Mount Victoria, in southern Chin State ...
.
[Harvey 1925: 39, 329] Soon after her father became king in 1084, she fell in love the prince who was visiting Pagan. But her father forbade her to marry a foreigner, and instead married her off to Prince
Saw Yun
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, reign = 15 May 1315 – 5 February 1327
, coronation =
, succession = King of Sagaing
, predecessor = Thihathu
, successor = Tar ...
, the son of the late King
Saw Lu
Saw Lu ( my, စောလူး ; also spelled Sawlu; also known as Min Lulin ( ), ; 19 April 1049 – 21 April 1084) was king of Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1077 to 1084. He inherited from his father Anawrahta the Pagan Empire, the f ...
. The
primate
Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...
of Pagan
Shin Arahan
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, caption = Statute of Shin Arahan in Ananda Temple
, birth name =
, alias =
, dharma_name = mnw, ဓမ္မဒဿဳ
, birth_date = c. 1034
, b ...
broke the news to the prince, who subsequently committed suicide.
[Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 279–280]
The princess had two children with Saw Yun: Soe Saing, and Sithu, who succeeded Kyansittha.
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Pagan dynasty
Burmese royalty
11th-century Burmese women
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