Mwei Auk

Lawka Dewi Mwei Auk (Burmese: လောကဒေဝီ မွေ့အောက်, pronounced [lɔ́ka̰ dèwì mwḛ ʔauʔ]) was a principal queen consort of King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy Pegu from 1392 to 1421.

Lawka Dewi Mwei Auk လောကဒေဝီ မွေ့အောက်
Queen of the Northern Palace of Hanthawaddy
Tenure	c. April 1392 – c. 1421
Predecessor	Tala Mi Daw
Successor	unknown
Spouse	Razadarit
House	Hanthawaddy Pegu
Father	Saw Ye-Bein
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

In this Burmese name, Mwei is an honorific, not a given name.

Brief

According to the Razadarit Ayedawbon chronicle, the queen was the middle daughter of Saw Ye-Bein, a senior minister at the Hanthawaddy court. Her personal name was Mwei Auk (မွေ့အောက်). She had an elder sister Mwei Ohn-Naung and a younger sister Mi U-Si In April 1392, she became a senior queen of King Razadarit, with the title of Lawka Dewi (Pali: Lokadevī). Her two sisters were also raised as queens at the same ceremony.

She and her sisters were first cousins once removed of the king. Their father was a first cousin of Razadarit. Their paternal grandfather Binnya Thein was a noble from Chiang Mai who after a disagreement with the king of Chiang Mai had sought refuge at the court of King Binnya U. Their paternal grandmother was Tala Saw Lun, a daughter of King Saw Zein.

Ancestry

Ancestry of Queen Lawka Dewi
8. unnamed 4. Binnya Thein of Chiang Mai 9. unnamed 2. Saw Ye-Bein 10. Saw Zein 5. Tala Saw Lun 11. unnamed 1. Mwei Auk 12. unnamed 6. unnamed 13. unnamed 3. unnamed 14. unnamed 7. unnamed 15. unnamed

Bibliography

• Pan Hla, Nai (1968). Razadarit Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (8th printing, 2005 ed.). Yangon: Armanthit Sarpay.