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If Kyansittha is the son of Anawrahta's son ,he had to claimed the throne after Anawrahta death not Sawlu.Because he is much older than Sawlu .With his date of birth it is impossible to be a son of Anawrahta.If both Kyansittha and Sawlu are son of Anawrahta's son that is less likely to marry son of Sawlu and Kyansittha's daughter and gave birth to Alaungsithu.Kyansittha denied throne to his son Yazakumar ,who is the one writing Myazedi stone inscription.One historian ,Dr Ma Tin Win speculated that most possibly Anawrahta ,Sawlu are coming down as Royal blood line and Kyansittha was outsider/ordinary man .So he did had opposition who are willing to accepted royal blood line.So he gave alaungsithu ,his grandson who had blood line of Anawrahta for stability of country and to reduce opposition during his reign. So Kyansittha could not be son of Anawrahta. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Htunsanmyat (talk • contribs) 06:01, 1 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the question, @Htunsanmyat: The main reason as to why Anawrahta didn't select Kyansittha as his successor could be that the king, as chronicles speculate, didn't believe Kyansittha was his biological son. (But, IMO, it could also be because he wanted/needed to give it to a son of a higher ranked consort--Saw Lu's mother Agga Mahethi was Anawrahta's chief queen.) Anyway, regardless of who the true biological father of Kyansittha might have been, Anawrahta was still the *legal* father because by Burmese customary law, a child born in wedlock is presumed to have been begotten by the husband. (Using the same logic, chronicles consider the child born of the tryst between Minye Deippa and a minor consort of King Anaukpetlun a legal child of Anaukpetlun, even though chronicles openly state that the child wasn't Anaukpetlun's.) Hybernator (talk) 16:21, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
FWIW, a stone inscription supposedly donated by Kyansittha himself--located at a Pagoda in Taungbyon--says that Anawrahta was his father. See (Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: xxvii–xxviii, in the 1963 preface by Hsan Tun). Hybernator (talk) 00:10, 12 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
