Wadanthika
Pagan
Pyanchi
Gingathu
Wadanthika (Burmese: ဝဋံသိကာ, pronounced [wədàɴθḭgà]) was the second Queen of the Central Palace of King Sithu II of the Pagan Dynasty of Myanmar (Burma). She may also have been Sithu II's chief queen for a brief period.
Chronicles do not identify her by her personal name; they identify her simply as younger sister of Thubarit, and mother of Yazathu, Pyanchi and Gingathu.[note 1] But contemporary inscriptional evidence shows that the name of the queen of Sithu II and the mother of Yazathu, Pyanchi and Gingathu was Wadanthika.[1] According to the chronicle Yazawin Thit, she was Ale Pyinthe or Queen of the Central Palace, and was a grandniece of Queen Yadanabon I of Pagan.[2] Inscriptional evidence as well as Maha Yazawin and Hmannan Yazawin chronicles say that she had the title Usaukpan,[1][3][4] which according to Than Tun meant the chief queen.[note 2] If so, Sithu II may have continued to keep the offices of the chief queen and the Queen of the Southern Palace separate. (His first chief queen Weluwaddy, and the first South Queen was Min Aung Myat.)
Wadanthika died soon after the birth of her third child.[3][5]
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References
Bibliography
- Kala, U (1724). Maha Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2006, 4th printing ed.). Yangon: Ya-Pyei Publishing.
- Maha Sithu (2012) [1798]. Kyaw Win; Thein Hlaing (eds.). Yazawin Thit (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2nd ed.). Yangon: Ya-Pyei Publishing.
- Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
- Than Tun (1964). Studies in Burmese History (in Burmese). Vol. 1. Yangon: Maha Dagon.
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Preceded by | Queen of the Central Palace c. 1190s – 1190s | Succeeded by |
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Queens of the Southern Palace
- Taung Pyinthe (Saw Rahan II)
- Myauk Pyinthe (Kunhsaw)1
- Agga Mahethi
- Usaukpan
- Manisanda
- Apeyadana
- Thanbula
- Yadanabon I1 and Taung Pyinthe (Sithu I)2
- Ti Lawka Sanda I
- Taung Pyinthe (Narathu)
- Min Aung Myat
- Weluwaddy1 and Min Aung Myat (Sithu II)2
- Taung Pyinthe II (Sithu II)
- Pwadawgyi
- Shin Saw3
- Yaza Dewi
- Ti Lawka Sanda II
- Yadanabon II
- Pwa Saw
- Saw Thitmahti
- Myauk Pyinthe (Saw Rahan II and Kunhsaw)
- Saw Mon Hla
- Manisanda
- Yadanabon I
- Myauk Pyinthe (Narathu)
- Saw Lat
- Myauk Pyinthe II (Sithu II)
- Myauk Pyinthe (Htilominlo)
- Saw Min Waing3
- Pwa Saw
- Saw Soe
- Ale Pyinthe (Saw Rahan II and Kunhsaw)
- Khin Tan
- Ti Lawka Sanda I
- Saw Ahlwan
- Wadanthika
- Saw Mya Kan
- Saw Mi Pyan
- Mi Saw U