in or after 1313 (or 1295–96) Pagan (Bagan) Pinya Kingdom
Spouse
Uzana (c. 1253–56) Narathihapate (1256–87)
Issue
Yazathu
House
Pagan
Father
Thray[1]
Mother
Min Mi[1]
Religion
Theravada Buddhism
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Pwa Saw (Burmese: ဖွားစော[pʰwásɔ́]; also known as Saw Hla Wun (စောလှဝန်း, [sɔ́l̥a̰wʊ́ɴ]); c. 1240–c. 1295/96 or 1310s) was a chief queen consort of King Narathihapate of the Pagan Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). She is remembered as witty, wise, and beautiful, and as someone who exercised political influence for four decades during one of the most difficult periods in the country's history. Historians are divided as to whether the chronicle narratives contain more myth than fact.
Hla Wun was the most well known of the three historical Pagan period queens known by the epithet Pwa Saw (lit. "Queen Grandmother", or queen dowager). The queen was the benevolent power behind the throne, shielding the public and the court from the erratic pronouncements of Narathihapate, whom chronicles describe as arrogant, gluttonous, quick-tempered, paranoid and ruthless. By using her wit, she skillfully stayed out of the king's paranoid suspicions. Although she was not always successful, the queen often managed to talk the king into changing his numerous rash decisions, and making wise state decisions.
Hla Wun continued to wield influence even after Narathihapate's death in 1287. As the leader of the court, the dowager queen put Kyawswa on the throne in 1289. But she was disappointed by Kyawswa's inability to restore the fallen Pagan Empire. Chronicles say that she organized a coup against Kyawswa in 1297, and remained an éminence grise well into the 1310s. She is said to have given her blessing to King Thihathu's claim as the rightful successor of the Pagan kings in 1313. However, one analysis of the contemporary inscriptions, though not universally accepted, finds that she may have died as early as 1295/96, and that the Pwa Saw who lived in the early 14th century was Saw Thitmahti.
boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. PwaSaw (Burmese: ဖွားစော [pʰwá sɔ́]; also known as Saw Hla Wun (စောလှဝန်း, [sɔ́ l̥a̰ wʊ́ɴ]); c. 1240–c...
see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. PwaSaw of Thitmahti (Burmese: သစ်မထီး ဖွားစော, [θɪʔmətʰí pʰwá sɔ́] or [θəmətʰí...
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Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 360 Ba Shin 1982: 42 Ba Shin, Bo-Hmu (1966). "The PwaSaws of Bagan" (PDF). Burma Historical Research Department Silver Jublice Publication...
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1297, with the help of the dowager queen PwaSaw, they overthrew Kyawswa, and installed one of Kyawswa's sons, Saw Hnit as their puppet king. The brothers...
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capital Pagan (Bagan). His father had been handpicked by the dowager queen PwaSaw to succeed his grandfather King Narathihapate, who was assassinated two...
of Saw Hnit's nominal status as king. The old power structure at Pagan led by the dowager queen PwaSaw was not happy but there was little she or Saw Hnit...
that he was not of royal blood and that he was a grandnephew of Queen PwaSaw of Pagan. The dedication ceremony was held on Monday, the 5th waxing of...
capital Pagan (Bagan). His father had been hand-picked by the dowager queen PwaSaw to succeed his grandfather King Narathihapate, who had been assassinated...
novel by Maurice Collis. It is a fictional embellished account of Queen PwaSaw of the Pagan Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). The book was translated into Burmese...
(2) PwaSaw was born c. 1240. Per (Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 234, footnote #1), Naratheinga Uzana did have another wife, who later became known as Pwa Saw;...
Burma along the upper Irrawaddy valley. Saw Hnit, a son of Kyawswa, was elected king by the dowager queen PwaSaw but soon became a governor under the authority...
1297, with the help of the dowager queen PwaSaw, they overthrew Kyawswa, and installed one of Kyawswa's sons, Saw Hnit as their puppet king. The brothers...
with the dowager queen PwaSaw's advice, they agreed to appoint the sons of Kyawswa by his queen Saw Soe, Saw Hnit and Min Shin Saw viceroys of Pagan (Bagan)...
or ancestry except that he was a grandson of the elder sister of Queen PwaSaw of Pagan. This means that he was a grandson of Queen Yadanabon and King...
1297, with the help of the dowager queen PwaSaw, they overthrew Kyawswa, and installed one of Kyawswa's sons, Saw Hnit as their puppet king. The brothers...
Shin Saw Gyi and Saw Omma. His father died soon after the birth of Saw Omma. His mother remarried to Thihapate, a grandnephew of Queen PwaSaw of Pagan...
an elder brother Thihatura II and two younger sisters Soe Min and Min PwaSaw. As the second eldest son of the chief queen, Min Swe was a senior prince...
instead, they mention her sister Saw Hla Wun, who later became famous as PwaSaw, as the only chief queen. But inscriptional evidence shows that Yadanabon...
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