Prince Pu, Prince of Pyinzi

Hteiktin Pu (Burmese: ထိပ်တင်ပု, c. 1813 – 1882), commonly known as Prince of Pyinzi, was a royal prince during the late Konbaung dynasty, especially famous for his classical Mahāgīta songs.[1][2]

Hteiktin Pu
Prince of Pyinzi
Reigncirca 1855 – 1882
PredecessorMyosit
SuccessorThado Minye
Prince of Myingun
Bornc. 1813
Ava
Died1882 (1883) (aged 69)
Mandalay
IssueHteiktin Wint
Hteiktin Kyi
Hteiktin Nyo
HouseKonbaung
FatherPrince of Toungoo
MotherPrincess of Tagaung

Biography

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Hteiktin Pu was born in about 1813 to the Prince of Toungoo, a younger brother of King Bagyidaw,[note 1] and Princess of Tagaung.[3]

Hteiktin Pu received the appanage of Myingun [my] with the title of Maha Siri Dhammaraja during the reign of King Tharrawaddy, and the appanage of Pyinzi[note 2] with the title of Su Siri Maha Dhammaraja during King Mindon.[4]

Hteiktin Pu died in 1882.

Works

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Among the five Pyinzi princes of the Konbaung dynasty, those who showed the most interest in Mahāgīta were Maung Naga and Hteiktin Pu. Although they both composed Mahāgīta songs, no Mahagita books described clearly which songs were written by which Prince of Pyinzi.[2]

The famous Mahāgīta songs Hteiktin Pu composed were:

  • Myan Char Mye Ko patpyoe (မြန်ချာမြေကို ပတ်ပျိုး)[5]
  • Celebration song of Mandalay started with Mingalar Thiri Mye Myatswa (မင်္ဂလာသီရိမြေမြတ်စွာ အစချီ မန္တလေးမြို့ဘွဲ့)
  • Taung Zambu Paing Thai-adapted song (တောင်ဇမ္ဗူပိုင် ယိုးဒယား)
  • Wei Zayantar Nanbon Thai-adapted song (ဝေဇယန္တာနန်းဘုံ ယိုးဒယား).[6][1]

Issue

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Hteiktin Pu had three children: Hteiktin Wint, Hteiktin Kyi and Hteiktin Nyo.[2]

King Mindon conferred the title of Minye Thinkayar to Hteiktin Wint in 1882.

Hteiktin Kyi followed her father's footsteps— she also composed Mahagita songs. There were Hteiktin Kyi's eight patpyoes in "Sabba Gitakkama Pasānadī" manuscript.

Hteiktin Nyo published the novel "Dadhivāhana and Pāsādacandi" Volume I in 1906 and Volume II in 1908.

Notes

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  1. ^ Bodawpaya's son, Crown Prince of Shwedaung and his first consort gave birth to four sons and five daughters– Bagyidaw, Prince of Toungoo, Tharrawaddy, Bo Lamin (died at young age), Min Myatsoe, Min Myatsu, a daughter (died at young age), Min Akyi (died at young age), and Min Ange.
  2. ^ Pyinzi is a town on the MyingyanTaungtha roadside.

References

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  1. ^ a b "အလင်္ကာပုလဲပန်း၊ နောက်ဖယ်တွင်း၊ ဆက္ကဂံ၊ မျောက်သား". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese).
  2. ^ a b c (Dawei), Maung Than Swe (1999). Konbaung Shindan. Yar Pyae. pp. 58–65.
  3. ^ သမိန်, လှ (1955). မြန်မာကျမ်းပြုပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များနှင့် စာဆိုတော်ကြီးများအတ္ထုပတ္တိ ပေါင်းချုပ်နှင့် ပြုစုသောစာပေများစာရင်း (in Burmese). ပညာနန္ဒပုံနှိပ်တိုက်.
  4. ^ မြန်မာ့စွယ်စုံကျမ်း (in Burmese). မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဘာသာပြန်စာပေအသင်း. 1954.
  5. ^ ဆရာ.), တင် (ဗေလုဝ (1974). ဂီတာလင်္ကာရဒီပနီ၊ ဆို ဂီတသိပ္ပံ အခြေခံ (in Burmese). ဣစ္ဆာသယ ပိဋကတ်စာပုံနှိပ်တိုက်.
  6. ^ နိုင် (ရာမည.), ကိုကို (1985). မြန်မာ့စောင်း သိကောင်းစရာနှင့် တတ်ကောင်းစရာ (in Burmese). စာပေဗိမာန်.