''Maha Thanmada Wuntha'' ( my, မဟာသမ္မတဝံသ, ; pi, Mahā Sammata Vaṃsa) or more commonly known as ''Yazawin Kyaw'' ( my, ရာဇဝင် ကျော်, ; the Celebrated Chronicle) is an early 16th-century
chronicle
A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...
of
Buddhist religious history and
Burmese history
The history of Myanmar (also known as Burma; my, မြန်မာ့သမိုင်း) covers the period from the time of first-known human settlements 13,000 years ago to the present day. The earliest inhabitants of recorded history wer ...
.
The chronicle was written in two parts by
Shin Maha Silavamsa
Shin Mahāsīlavaṃsa ( my, ရှင်မဟာ သီလဝံသ, variously transcribed Shin Maha Silavamsa, Shin Maha Thilawuntha or Rhaṅʻ Mahāsīlavaṃsa) was a Theravadan Buddhist monk and a classical Burmese poet who lived in 15t ...
, the famous learned monk, author and poet. The first part, written in 1502, is mainly a religious history document, and essentially a
Burmese version of the ''
Mahavamsa'' and ''
Dipavamsa''. The first part focuses on the kings of ancient India and Ceylon, according to
Buddhist mythology
The Buddhist traditions have created and maintained a vast body of mythological literature. The central myth of Buddhism is the life of the Buddha. This is told in relatively realistic terms in the earliest texts, and was soon elaborated into ...
and history.
[Aung-Thwin 2005: 124][Yazawin Kyaw 2010: 183] In 1520, the author added a supplement about the Burmese kings down to 1496. In all, only one-seventh of the treatise concerns the affairs of Burmese kings as it was not intended to be an authoritative chronicle. The author stated there was already an existing chronicle of the Ava court.
[Hla Pe 1985: 36–37]
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