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At accession, he made his first wife Saw Bon-Htut the chief queen but also married his father"s chief queen Saw Thanda.
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Minister Saw Hla
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In this Burmese name, Minister Saw is an honorific. He ordered a massive building program which built and repaired dams, irrigation canals as well as improved the defenses of Mrauk-U and other key towns around the kingdom. In 1561, he commissioned the building of Htukkanthein Temple.
He tightened control of Chittagong and the kingdom"s northern perimeter.
In the early 1560s, he sent the army to Tripura, whose ruler, according to Arakanese chronicles, submitted to Mrauk-U. He died in 1564 after a long illness.
