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 | |
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| Queen of the Central Palace of Ava | |
| Tenure | c. 1390s – April 1400 |
| Predecessor | Saw Omma of Sagaing |
| Successor | Min Pyan of Ava |
| Queen of the Western Palace of Ava | |
| Tenure | 5 September 1367 – c. 1390s |
| Predecessor | new office |
| Successor | Shin Mi-Nauk |
| Born | c. 1353 Sagaing |
| Died | ? Ava (Inwa) |
| Spouse | Swa Saw Ke |
| Issue | Soe Min Wimala Dewi[1] |
| Father | Minbyauk Thihapate |
| Mother | Soe Min Kodawgyi |
| Religion | Theravada 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
editThe 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]
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Notes
edit- ^ 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
editBibliography
edit- 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.