Career
He was the youngest child of King Thihathu and his chief queen Mi Saw U, and the youngest brother of kings Uzana I and Kyawswa I of Pinya. Nawrahta was given the town of Shisha (ရှိရှား) in fief on 7 February 1313 by Thihathu. He remained loyal to his father"s Pinya faction when the Myinsaing Kingdom split into Pinya and Sagaing kingdoms in 1315.
He remained loyal to Pinya throughout the reigns of Uzana I and Sithu.
Nawrahta Minye appointed Nawrahta governor of Kanni. All royal chronicles from Maha Yazawin (1724) onward identify Nawrahta of Kanni as an ancestor (maternal great-great-great grandfather) of King Bayinnaung of Toungoo Dynasty.