Thray Waduna of Pinya

  • Thray Waduna
  • သရေ ဝဎုနာ
Governor of Pinya
Reignc. 1380s – 1390s or later
PredecessorShin Saw Gyi[note 1]
Successor?
Monarch
Born?
Ava Kingdom
DiedAva Kingdom
IssueThray Sithu
FatherThettawshay of Myinsaing

Thray Waduna (Burmese: သရေ ဝဎုနာ, pronounced [θəɹè wədṵnà]) was governor of Pinya in the late 14th and perhaps early 15th centuries. He participated in the Ava–Hanthawaddy War (1385–1391). He is considered a possible patrilineal ancestor of King Mingyi Nyo, the founder of the Toungoo Dynasty.

Ancestry and descendants

The royal chronicles provide conflicting accounts of Thray Waduna's ancestry and descendants.

  • The Yazawin Thit chronicle (1798) does not identify Thray Waduna as an ancestor of Mingyi Nyo. It maintains that Thettawshay was an ancestor of Mingyi Nyo but argues that he was Shwe Nan Shin's son-in-law, not his son. The chronicle names Thettawshay's father as Min Letwe of Sikyay.[4]
  • The Hmannan Yazawin chronicle (1832) accepts most of the Yazawin Thit's corrections[5] but names another wife of Thettawshay as Mingyi Nyo's ancestor.[note 2]

Historians recognize the discrepancies with the various chronicle narratives. Historian Sein Lwin Lay's 1968 analysis on the ancestry of kings Mingyi Nyo and Tabinshwehti lists Thray Waduna as a patrilineal ancestor.[note 3] The editors of the 2012 edition of the Yazawin Thit chronicle also reviewed the sources but offered no definitive conclusion.[note 4]

Military service

The following is a list of campaigns the governor participated in according to the royal chronicles.

Campaign Duration Troops commanded[note 5] Notes
Ava–Hanthawaddy War (1385–1391) 1385–1386 1 regiment Served in the 2nd Army (9 regiments, 6000 infantry, 500 cavalry, 20 elephants) under the command of Prince Min Swe[7][8]
Ava–Hanthawaddy War (1385–1391) 1386–1387 1 regiment (1000 troops) Commanded one of the two vanguard regiments that captured Hmawbi before being driven back a few months later[9][10]
Ava–Hanthawaddy War (1385–1391) 1390–1391 1 regiment (1000 troops) Part of the invasion army led by Crown Prince Tarabya that invaded the Sittaung front[11][12][13]

Notes

  1. ^
    • According to the Yazawin Thit chronicle, King Swa Saw Ke gave Pinya in fief ("ကံကျွေး ပေးတော်မူ") to his queen of the Northern Palace, Shin Saw Gyi c. March 1368 (Tabaung 729 ME), soon after his accession.[1] This typically means she was a myosa grade governor. However, given that Pinya was only about 8 km south of Ava (Inwa), the queen may have been a titular myosa, and may not have "governed" her fief.
    • Thray Waduna did not become governor of Pinya because Shin Saw Gyi had died. Per a contemporary inscription dated 13 June 1398 (Wednesday, 12th waxing of Waso 760 ME), she had graduated to become the chief queen consort by then.[2]
  2. ^
    • The Yazawin Thit says Thettawshay and the daughter of Shwe Nan Shin had a son named Maha Thinkhaya, who was a paternal great grandfather of Mingyi Nyo.[4]
    • The Hmannan accepts that Maha Thinkhaya was a great grandfather of Mingyi Nyo but names another wife of Thettawshay, Saw Min Hla as the mother.[5]
  3. ^ According to Sein Lwin Lay, several historical sources about the ancestry of Mingyi Nyo and Tabinshwehti provide different, often conflicting information. His analysis considered the Maha Yazawin, Hmannan, and the Min Taya Shwe-Hti Eigyin, and the paper and parabaik versions of the Toungoo Yazawin.[6] Although he largely accepted the Maha Yazawin's paternal line, he partially accepted Hmannan's line that Thray Waduna's father Thettawshay was a descendant of King Kyawswa I of Pinya. In the Hmannan, Thettawshay was a grandson of King Kyawswa I while in Sein Lwin Lay's list, he was a son of the king. Sein Lwin Lay did not explain how he arrived at his list.
  4. ^ See (Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 343, footnote 1; 343–344, footnote 4). The editors provide the lists by the Maha Yazawin, the Yazawin Thit, the Hmannan and the Min Taya Shwe-Hti Eigyin.
  5. ^ Chronicle reported troop levels reduced by an order of magnitude per (Harvey 1925: 333–336)

References

  1. ^ Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 184–185
  2. ^ Tun Nyein et al 1899: 164
  3. ^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 130
  4. ^ a b Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 343
  5. ^ a b Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 173
  6. ^ Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 47
  7. ^ Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 196
  8. ^ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 418
  9. ^ Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 198–199
  10. ^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 296
  11. ^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 301
  12. ^ Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 202
  13. ^ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 429–430

Bibliography

  • Kala, U (2006) [1724]. Maha Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (4th printing ed.). Yangon: Ya-Pyei Publishing.
  • Maha Sithu (2012) [1798]. Myint Swe (1st ed.); Kyaw Win; Thein Hlaing (eds.). Yazawin Thit (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2nd ed.). Yangon: Ya-Pyei Publishing.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link)
  • Royal Historical Commission of Burma (2003) [1832]. Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3. Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
  • Sein Lwin Lay, Kahtika U (2006) [1968]. Mintaya Shwe Hti and Bayinnaung: Ketumadi Taungoo Yazawin (in Burmese) (2nd printing ed.). Yangon: Yan Aung Sarpay.
  • Tun Nyein, U; Taw Sein Ko; Emanuel Forchhammer (1899). Inscriptions of Pagan, Pinya and Ava: Translation, with Notes. Archaeological Survey of India.


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