Background
The following is her ancestry as reported in the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle, which in turn referenced contemporary inscriptions. Her parents were double cousins.
The following is her ancestry as reported in the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle, which in turn referenced contemporary inscriptions. Her parents were double cousins.
Narapati Medaw redirects here. Narapati then married her off to Sithu Kyawhtin, then governor of Salin, a powerful figure in the Confederation of Shan States, in a marriage of state in the late 1530s. (Prome was then a de facto vassal state of the Confederation, which controlled all of Ava territories except Toungoo in Upper Burma) Her stay at Salin lasted until January 1544 when the city was captured by Toungoo forces under General
Bayinnaung.
Her husband escaped to Ava (Inwa) but she was captured and sent to Pegu (Bago). She had two daughters by Nanda Yawda, now styled as Thado Dhamma Yaza World War II Their elder daughter Hsinbyushin Medaw became the chief queen of Nawrahta Minsaw, the viceroy (and later king) of Lan Na. The younger daughter Minister Taya Medaw was a major queen of Nanda.