Min Sekkya ( my, မင်းစကြာ, , Arakanese pronunciation: ; 1536–1572) 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 1564 to 1572. He succeeded his elder half-brother King

Min Saw Hla Min Saw Hla ( my, မင်းစောလှ, ; 1532–1564) was king of Arakan 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. He ordered a massive bui ...

, who had chosen him to be the heir apparent. The northern vassal of

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 ea ...

, which had submitted to Min Saw Hla, revolted and for a time, he lost control of Chittagong. He regained the city but his attempt to reassert control over Tripura was not successful. He continued the construction projects of his brother. He was married to his half-sister Dhamma Dewi but after she died, he married Saw Thanda, who had been queen of both his brother Min Saw Hla and his father Min Dikkha.Sandamala Linkara Vol. 2 1999: 47 He died of natural causes in 1572, and was succeeded by his paternal uncle Min Phalaung.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sekkya, Min Monarchs of Mrauk-U 1536 births 1572 deaths 16th century in the Mrauk-U Kingdom 16th-century Burmese monarchs