, image = , caption = , reign = 1190s – 1190s , coronation = , succession = Queen of the Central Palace , predecessor = Saw Ahlwan , successor = Saw Mya Kan , spouse = Sithu II , issue = Yazathu
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(Bagan) , death_date = 1190s , death_place = Pagan , date of burial = , place of burial = , religion =

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, signature = Wadanthika (, ) was the second Queen of the Central Palace of King Sithu II of the Pagan Dynasty of

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(Burma). She may also have been Sithu II's chief queen for a brief period. Chronicles do not identify her by her personal name; they identify her simply as younger sister of Thubarit, and mother of Yazathu, Pyanchi and Gingathu.See (Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 212) and (Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 317–318). (Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 133) gives only Yazathura and Pyanchi (not Gingathu) as her children. But contemporary inscriptional evidence shows that the name of the queen of Sithu II and the mother of Yazathu, Pyanchi and Gingathu was Wadanthika.Than Tun 1964: 129 According to the chronicle ''

Yazawin Thit ''Maha Yazawin Thit'' (, ; ; also known as ''Myanmar Yazawin Thit'' or ''Yazawin Thit'') is a national chronicle of Burma (Myanmar). Completed in 1798, the chronicle was the first attempt by the Konbaung court to update and check the accuracy o ...

'', she was ''Ale Pyinthe'' or Queen of the Central Palace, and was a grandniece of Queen

Yadanabon I of Pagan , image = , caption = , reign = 1112 – 1150s , coronation = , succession = Chief queen consort of Burma , predecessor = Thanbula , successor = Ti La ...

.Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 133 Inscriptional evidence as well as ''

Maha Yazawin The ''Maha Yazawin'', fully the ''Maha Yazawindawgyi'' (, , Pali : Mahārājavaṃsa) and formerly romanized as the ,. is the first national chronicle of Burma/Myanmar. Completed in 1724 by U Kala, a historian at the Toungoo court, it was the ...

'' and ''

Hmannan Yazawin ''Hmannan Maha Yazawindawgyi'' (, ; commonly, ''Hmannan Yazawin''; known in English as the ''Glass Palace Chronicle'') is the first Burmese chronicle, official chronicle of Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). It was compiled by the Royal Histori ...

'' chronicles say that she had the title Usaukpan,Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 212Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 317 which according to

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meant the chief queen.(Than Tun 1964: 129) translates ''Usaukpan'' as ''Hteik-khaung-tin Mibaya'', or chief queen. If so, Sithu II may have continued to keep the offices of the chief queen and the Queen of the Southern Palace separate. (His first chief queen Weluwaddy, and the first South Queen was Min Aung Myat.) Wadanthika died soon after the birth of her third child.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 318

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