Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu

Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu ( Burmese : ကွမ်း ဆော် ကြောင် ဖြူ, spoken [kúɴ sʰɔ̀ tɕàuɴ pʰjù]; * around 934; † around 1049 in Bagan ) was a king of Bagan and the father of the founder of the Bagan dynasty, King Anawrahta (ruled 1044 to 1077) .

ancestry

The information about Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu in the Burmese chronicles is not reliable and partly legendary.

Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu was descended from an early king of Bagan named Tannet and took the throne from Nyaung-u Sawrahan . He married three of his predecessor's main wives, two of whom were already pregnant and had sons: Sokkate and Kyiso . Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu adopted the two infants as his children and fathered another son, Anawrahta, who was born in 1014.

According to the chronicles, Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu ruled between 964 and 986, but counting backwards from his son's accession to the throne (1044) results in a reign between 992 and 1014.

After Sokkate and Kyiso grew up, they forced their adoptive father to abdicate and took him to a temple. Sokkate married the mother of Anawrahta, who however killed his stepfather in a duel in 1044. He then offered the throne to his father, who declined in favor of his son.

Kunhsaw died four years after his son's accession to the throne, i.e. 1048/1049. The chronicles tell of an age of 115 years. After his death he entered the Burmese pantheon as Nat and was named Htihpyusaung Nat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George W. Bird (1897), S. 336th
2. ↑ Pe Maung Tin (1960), p. 70
3. ↑ Harvey (1925), pp. 18f.

literature

• George W. Bird: Wanderings in Burma . FJ Bright & Son 1897.
• Pe Maung Tin and GH Luce: The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma . Rangoon Univ. Press 1960.
• Maung Htin Aung: A History of Burma . New York: Cambridge Univ. Press 1967.
• GE Harvey: History of Burma Asian Educational Services 1925.