Pyusawhti

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Pyusawhti
ပျူစောထီး
King of Pagan
Reignc. 167–242/243 CE or
late 8th century CE
PredecessorYathekyaung
SuccessorHti Min Yin
Born133?
Tagaung?
Died242 or 243? (aged 109)
Pagan (Bagan)
ConsortThiri Sanda Dewi
HouseTagaung
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Pyusawhti (Burmese: ပျူစောထီး , pronounced [pjù sɔ́ tʰí]; also Pyuminhti, ပျူမင်းထီး [pjù mɪ́ɴ tʰí]) was a legendary king of Pagan Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar), who according to the Burmese chronicles supposedly reigned from 167 to 242 CE. The chronicles down to the 18th century had reported that Pyusawhti, a descendant of a solar spirit and a dragon princess, was the founder of Pagan—hence, Burmese monarchy. However Hmannan Yazawin, the Royal Chronicle of Konbaung Dynasty proclaimed in 1832 that he was actually a scion of Tagaung Kingdom and traced his lineage all the way to Maha Sammata, the first king of the world in Buddhist mythology.[1][2]

Scholarship conjectures that Pyusawhti the historical figure likely existed in the mid-to-late 8th century, who perhaps came over from the Nanzhao Kingdom as part of the Nanzhao raids of the Irrawaddy valley during the period.[3]

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  2. ^ Lieberman 2003: 196
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