Tarabya of Ava

Tarabya တရဖျား
Tarabya portrayed as the Mintara nat (spirit)
King of Ava
Reign	April – November 1400
Predecessor	Swasawke
Successor	Minkhaung I
Chief Minister	Wun Zin Min Yaza
Born	22 December 1368 Friday, 14th waxing of Pyatho 730 ME[1] Ava (Inwa)
Died	25 November 1400 (aged 31)[2] Thursday, 9th waxing of Nadaw 726 ME Ava
Consort	Min Hla Myat[3]
Issue	Kale Kyetaungnyo Min Hla Htut (daughter)
Full name Thihathu
House	Pinya
Father	Swasawke
Mother	Shin Saw Gyi (or Khame Mi)[note 1]
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

Tarabya (Burmese: တရဖျား, pronounced: [təja̰pʰjá]; 22 December 1368 – 25 November 1400) was king of Ava for about seven months in 1400. Tarabya was the heir apparent from 1385 to 1400 during his father King Swasawke's reign.^[4] He was assassinated seven months into his rule by his one-time tutor, Nga Nauk Hsan, the governor of Tagaung. The ministers did not hand the throne to the usurper; they gave it to Minkhaung, Swasawke's son by a village maiden.^[5]

One of his sons, Kale Kyetaungnyo, became the sawbwa (chief) of Kale in the Upper Chindwin region, and later king of Ava from 1425 to 1426.^[6] He entered the official pantheon of Burmese nats (spirits) as the Mintara nat.^[7]

Notes

1. (Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 435): Yazawin Thit says Tarabya's mother was Shin Saw Gyi, citing a contemporary inscription. But Hmannan rejects it anyway, saying that it is contrary to the reporting by other extant chronicles, which say the mother was Khame Mi.

References

1. Zata 1960: 73
2. Than Tun 1959: 128
3. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 435
4. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 416
5. Htin Aung 1967: 89
6. Htin Aung 1967: 93–94
7. Hla Thamein

Bibliography

• Hla Thamein. "Thirty-Seven Nats". Yangonow. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
• Htin Aung, Maung (1967). A History of Burma. New York and London: Cambridge University Press.
• Royal Historians of Burma (c. 1680). U Hla Tin (Hla Thamein), ed. Zatadawbon Yazawin (1960 ed.). Historical Research Directorate of the Union of Burma.
• Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese) 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
• Than Tun (December 1959). "History of Burma: A.D. 1300–1400". Journal of Burma Research Society XLII (II).