Sokkate ( my, စုက္ကတေး, ; 29 March 1001 – 11 August 1044) was king 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) from 1038 to 1044. The king lost his life in a single combat with
Anawrahta
Anawrahta Minsaw ( my, အနော်ရထာ မင်းစော, ; 11 May 1014 – 11 April 1077) was the founder of the Pagan Empire. Considered the father of the Burmese nation, Anawrahta turned a small principality in the dry zone ...
, who succeeded him and went on to found the
Pagan Empire.
[Coedès 1968: 133, 149]
According to the chronicles, Sokkate was a son of King
Nyaung-u Sawrahan whose reign was usurped by King
Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu
Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu ( my, ကွမ်းဆော် ကြောင်းဖြူ ; c. 955–1048) was king of Pagan Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1001 to 1021. He was the father of Anawrahta, the founder of Pagan Empire. The principality of ...
. Kunhsaw married Nyuang-u's three chief queens, two of whom were pregnant and subsequently gave birth to
Kyiso and Sokkate. Sokkate and Kyiso were raised by Kunhsaw as his own sons. When the two sons reached manhood, they forced Kunhsaw to abdicate the throne and become a monk. When Sokkate became king, he took one of Kunhsaw's queens who had given birth to Anawrahta. When Anawrahta came of age, he challenged Sokkate to single combat, and killed the king.
[Htin Aung 1967: 31]
Dates
Various chronicles do not agree on the dates regarding his life and reign.
[Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 347] The oldest chronicle ''
Zatadawbon Yazawin
''Zatadawbon Yazawin'' ( my, ဇာတာတော်ပုံ ရာဇဝင်, ; also spelled ''Zatatawpon''; ) is the earliest extant chronicle of Burma. The chronicle mainly covers the regnal dates of kings as well as horoscopes of select ...
'' is considered to be the most accurate for the Pagan period.
[(Maha Yazawin 2006: 346–349): Among the four major chronicles, only ''Zatadawbon Yazawin's'' dates line up with Anawrahta's inscriptionally verified accession date of 1044 CE. (Aung-Thwin 2005: 121–123): In general, ''Zata'' is considered "the most accurate of all Burmese chronicles, particularly with regard to the best-known Pagan and Ava kings, many of whose dates have been corroborated by epigraphy."] However, ''Zata'' itself is contradictory in its reporting of his birth date: its regnal list and horoscope sections report different birth dates.
[Zata 1960: 39, 63] The table below lists the dates given by four main chronicles, as well as ''Hmannan's'' dates when anchored by the Anawrahta's inscriptionally verified accession date of 1044. The length of reign is given as 6 years by ''Zata'' but according to the other chronicles, it was
Kyiso, the predecessor, who ruled for six years.
[ Moreover, according to ''Hmannan'', Sokkate was three months younger than his half-brother Kyiso.][Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 227]
Accession
Sokkate succeeded his brother Kyiso at age 36 c. 1 April 1038.[Based on ''Zata's'' reporting per (Zata 1960: 63), he came to power at age 36 in year 400 ME. It means he came to power between the new year's day of 400 ME (25 March 1038) and the day before his 37th birthday, 8 April 1038 (2nd waxing of Kason 400 ME).]
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{{Burmese monarchs
Pagan dynasty
1001 births
1044 deaths
11th-century Burmese monarchs