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Alaung Mintayagyi Ayedawbon

Burmese historical chronicle


Summary

Burmese historical chronicle

FieldValue
nameMintayagyi Ayedawbon
title_origအလောင်းဘုရား အရေးတော်ပုံ
imageAlaungpaya Ayedawbon.JPG
captionCover of 1961 publication of both versions
authorLetwe Nawrahta or Twinthin Taikwun Maha Sithu
countryKingdom of Burma
languageBurmese
seriesBurmese chronicles
genreChronicle, History
release_date1752–1760
1961 (first publication)

1961 (first publication) Alaung Mintayagyi Ayedawbon (, also known as Alaungpaya Ayedawbon (), is one of two biographic chronicles of King Alaungpaya of Konbaung Dynasty. Both versions trace the king's life from his purported ancestry from King Sithu II of Pagan Dynasty down to his death from an illness from his campaign against Siam in 1760. Both contains many details, though not all the same, of the king's 8-year reign.

Scholarship agrees that both chronicles are contemporary accounts of the king by his ministers but does not agree on the authorship. Both versions were kept at the Royal Library of the last two Konbaung kings, Mindon and Thibaw. According to U Yan, the Royal Librarian, one version is by Letwe Nawrahta and the other is by Twinthin Taikwun Maha Sithu. One of the versions was published in 1883, and again in 1900 as Alaungpaya Ayedawbon.

The second version was first published only in 1961, alongside the first version, with both versions under names Alaung Mintayagyi Ayedawbon and Alaungpaya Ayedawbon. According to the editor of the 1961 edition Hla Thamein, the second version was written by Letwe Nawrahta. But historian Yi Yi disagrees, after a careful side-by-side comparison of both texts, stating that both versions were written by Twinthin Taikwun. Another scholar, Kyauk Taing, who like Yi Yi made a side-by-side analysis agrees with Yi Yi and Hla Thamein about the 1883 version but disagrees with them that Twinthin or Letwe Nawrahta wrote the 1961 version.

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References

  1. Thaw Kaung 2010: 32
  2. Hla Thamein 1961: 6–11
  3. Thaw Kaung 2010: 24–25
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