Thaik Taing (r. 513 – 523) was the 12th King[1] of the Early Pagan Kingdom who began his reign in 513 AD.[2] He moved the palace to Tampawaddy, near Thiri Pyissaya.[3][4][5]
Reign edit
In Burmese years 438, he ascended the throne. During his reign, he abandoned Thiri Pyitsaya and shifted royal capital to the surrounding area, renaming it to Tampawaddy. The reason for the relocation is unknown. However, the landslide on the banks of the Irrawaddy River seems to have been worse since then, according to Thaik Taing's curse on the Tayoke Pyan Pagoda inscription, "ငါ့ကောင်းမှုကို ဖျက်သသူကား ညောင်ဦးကသည် သီရိပစ္စယာတိုင်အောင် ကမ်းပြိုသကဲ့သို့ စီးပွားချမ်းသာယုတ်စေသော်" ("To those who destroyed my meritorious deeds: from Nyaung-U to Thiri Pyitsaya, may your sake and prosperity get lesser, as if a landslide destroyed them."). It seems that the king moved to a safer inland area to prevent the riverbank from collapsing.[6][7][8]
He died seven years after his accession to the throne.[9][10]
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Citations edit
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- ^ Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Bagan. Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Culture. 1998.
- ^ Texts and Contexts in Southeast Asia: Proceedings of the Texts and Contexts in Southeast Asia Conference, 12-14 December 2001. Universities Historical Research Centre. 2003.
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- ^ အရိယဝံသ၊ အာဒိစ္စရံသီ မုံရွေးဇေတဝန် ဆရာတော်ဘုရားကြီး ရေးသားစီရင်တော်မူအပ်သော စေတိယကထာ မည်သော ရာဇဝင်ချုပ် (၂၀၀၃) သီတဂူကမ္ဘာ့ဗုဒ္ဓသက္ကသိုလ် သုတေသနနှင့် ကျမ်းပြုဌာနက စီစဉ်ပုံနှိပ်ထုတ်ဝေသည်။
- ^ "G10_TB_Social Science (Saik Kyaik Myanmar)" (PDF). MOE.
Sources edit
- Harvey, G. E. (1925). History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
- Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.