Saw Taw Oo (Burmese: စောတော်ဦး, pronounced [sɔ́ dɔ̀ ʔú]) was a queen consort of King Swa Saw Ke of Ava. She was the daughter of King Thihapate of Sagaing, a granddaughter of King Saw Yun, the founder of Sagaing, and a half-sister of King Thado Minbya, the founder of Ava. She was raised to be a queen of Swa Saw Ke with the title of Queen of the Central Palace, succeeding her half-sister Saw Omma. The queen was also given Pagan (Bagan) in fief.[2]

Saw Taw Oo of Sagaing
စောတော်ဦး
Queen of the Central Palace of Ava
Tenurec. 1390s – April 1400
PredecessorSaw Omma of Sagaing
SuccessorMin Pyan of Ava
Queen of the Western Palace of Ava
Tenure5 September 1367 – c. 1390s
Predecessornew office
SuccessorShin Mi-Nauk
Bornc. 1353
Sagaing
Died?
Ava (Inwa)
SpouseSwa Saw Ke
IssueSoe Min Wimala Dewi[1]
FatherMinbyauk Thihapate
MotherSoe Min Kodawgyi
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

According to a contemporary inscription, the queen donated a monastery in Wetkyi-In, and dedicated paddy farmland to the monastery in October 1396.[a]

Ancestry

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The following is her ancestry according to Hmannan. She was descended from Pagan and Pinya royalty. Her father's lineage is not reported except that he was not of royal blood and that he was a grandnephew of Queen Pwa Saw of Pagan.[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ The dedication ceremony was held on Monday, the 5th waxing of Tazaungmon 758 ME.[3] The date can be conventionally translated as Thursday, 5 October 1396. If it was indeed on a Monday, the date may have been the 2nd waxing of Tazaungmon 758 ME (Monday, 2 October 1396). The Burmese numerals ၂ (2) and ၅ (5) have similar shapes, and can be misread/miscopied.

References

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  1. ^ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 436
  2. ^ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 404
  3. ^ Taw, Forchhammer 1899: 30–31
  4. ^ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 392

Bibliography

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  • Royal Historical Commission of Burma (2003) [1832]. Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3. Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
  • Taw, Sein Ko; Emanuel Forchhammer (1899). Inscriptions of Pagan, Pinya and Ava: Translation, with Notes. Rangoon: Archaeological Survey of India.
Saw Taw Oo of Sagaing
Born: c. 1353 Died: c. 15th century
Royal titles
Preceded by Queen of the Central Palace of Ava
c. 1390s–1400
Succeeded by
New title Queen of the Western Palace of Ava
1367–c. 1390s
Succeeded by