Yadanabon of Pinya

Yadanabon of Pinya ရတနာပုံ
Queen of the Northern Palace of Pinya
Tenure	7 February 1313 – c. February 1325
Predecessor	new office
Successor	unknown
Queen of the Northern Palace of Pinle
Tenure	1300s – 7 February 1313
Predecessor	new office
Successor	disestablished
Born	c. 1280s Linyin
Died	Pinya
Spouse	unnamed Thihathu
Issue	Tarabya I Saw Yun Saw Pale
House	Pinya
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

Yadanabon (Burmese: ရတနာပုံ, pronounced: [jədənàbòʊɴ]) was one of the two queens consort of King Thihathu of Pinya. She was also the mother of kings Saw Yun and Tarabya I of Sagaing.

The queen was a commoner from a small village called Linyin, located somewhere in the north. She may have been an ethnic Shan.^{[note 1]} In 1298, she was a widow with a 1-year old child travelling south when she met Thihathu, who was on a hunting trip. Thihathu, who had just founded the Myinsaing Kingdom with his two elder brothers, took her as a concubine. She gave birth to his first male child, Saw Yun, a year later. She remained a concubine until after she gave birth to a daughter, Saw Pale. She was raised to be the Queen of the Northern Palace.^[1]

The queen's descendants include kings of Sagaing from Saw Yun to Tarabya II, as well as King Thado Minbya, the founder of Ava Kingdom.^{[note 2]} Furthermore, chief queens consorts of Ava Shin Bo-Me and Shin Myat Hla were her descendants.^[1]

Notes

1. The chronicles (Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 371–372) do not mention her ethnicity, stating only that she was from the north. But British colonial scholarship calls her an ethnic Shan (and indeed Thihathu and his brothers full Shans): See (Phayre 1967: 59–60) and (Harvey 1925: 75–81), for example.
2. See the regnal list of Sagaing in (Harvey 1925: 366).

References

1. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 371–372

Bibliography

• Harvey, G. E. (1925). History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
• Phayre, Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur P. (1883). History of Burma (1967 ed.). London: Susil Gupta.
• Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.