''Ketumadi Toungoo Yazawin'' ( my, ကေတုမတီ တောင်ငူ ရာဇဝင်, ) is a
Burmese chronicle that covers the history of
Toungoo
Taungoo (, ''Tauñngu myoú''; ; also spelled Toungoo) is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west. The main industr ...
from 1279 to 1613. An 1837
palm-leaf manuscript
Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed ...
copy of an earlier copy has survived.
[Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 16] The chronicle only provides a brief summary of early rulers. A more detailed account of later rulers begins with the reign of
Min Sithu of Toungoo (r. 1481–1485), suggesting that the chronicle was first compiled in the late 15th century.
[Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: xxx–xxxii]
See also
*
List of rulers of Toungoo
This is a list of rulers of Taungoo, the predecessor principality of the Taungoo Dynasty of what is now Myanmar. The principality of Taungoo, at the edge of the realm of Upper Burma-based kingdoms, was a rebellion-prone vassal state. The region ...
References
Bibliography
*
*
*
{{Burmese chronicles
Burmese chronicles