Naratheinga Uzana Explained

Type:monarch
Naratheinga Uzana
နရသိင်္ဃ ဥဇနာ
Reign:1231? – 1235
Succession:Regent of Burma
Predecessor:Htilominlo as King
Successor:Kyaswa as King
Suc-Type:Successor
Spouse:Shin Saw
Saw Min Waing
Issue:Uzana[1]
House:Pagan
Father:Htilominlo
Mother:Eindawthe
Birth Date:in or before 1197
Birth Place:Pagan (Bagan)
Death Date:July 1235
Death Place:Pagan
Religion:Theravada Buddhism

Naratheinga Uzana (Burmese: နရသိင်္ဃ ဥဇနာ, in Burmese pronounced as /nəɹa̰ θéiɴga̰/; also known as Naratheinkha Uzana; 1190s–1235) was the regent of Pagan from c. 1231 to 1235. He was crown prince prior to his regency. He is regarded by G.H. Luce and Than Tun as king between 1231 and 1235 but other historians such as Htin Aung and Michael Aung-Thwin do not accept him as king.[2] [3] [4]

One contemporary stone inscription identifies him as the crown prince, and another identifies him as the king. Neither inscription provides any regnal dates but they were conjecturally dated c. 1230 or c. 1231 by Luce. Luce and Than Tun accept that he was king.[3] It is not universally accepted. Htin Aung does not accept Luce's proposed regnal dates; he argues that the fact that none of the chronicles identifies him as king shows that "his succession was disputed or officially unrecognized." According to Htin Aung, he may have been a pretender to the throne for a few months.[2] Aung-Thwin does not identify Naratheinga as king either.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Than Tun 1964: 134
  2. Htin Aung 1970: 43
  3. Than Tun 1964: 131–132
  4. Aung-Thwin and Aung-Thwin 2012: 99
  5. See (Aung-Thwin and Aung-Thwin 2012: 99) and (Aung-Thwin 1985: 22).