Shwe Einthi (, ; also Shwe Einsi, ) was a princess of Pagan Dynasty of

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(Myanmar). She was the only daughter of King

Kyansittha Kyansittha (, ; also spelt as Kyanzittha or Hti-Hlaing Min; 21 July 1030 – 1112/13) was king of the Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1084 to 1112/13, and is considered one of the greatest Burmese monarchs. He continued the social, econom ...

(r. 1084–1113), and the mother of King

Alaungsithu Alaungsithu or Sithu I ( ; also Cansu I; 1090–1167) was king of Pagan Dynasty of Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in ...

.Harvey 1925: 39 The princess is best remembered in

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for her failed love affair with the prince of Pateikkaya, a kingdom, believed to be in

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or in eastern

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.Harvey 1925: 39, 329 Soon after her father became king in 1084, she fell in love the prince who was visiting Pagan. But her father forbade her to marry a foreigner, and instead married her off to Prince

Saw Yun Athinhkaya Saw Yun ( ; also spelled Sawyun; 1299 – 5 February 1327) was the founder of the Sagaing Kingdom of Myanmar (Burma). The eldest son of King Thihathu set up a rival kingdom in 1315 after Thihathu appointed Uzana I of Pinya, Uzana I as ...

, the son of the late King

Saw Lu Saw Lu ( ; also spelled Sawlu; also known as Min Lulin ( ), ; 19 April 1049 – 21 April 1084) was king of Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1077 to 1084. He inherited from his father Anawrahta the Pagan Empire, the first ever unified kin ...

. The

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of Pagan

Shin Arahan The Venerable Shin Arahan ( ; formally, Dhammadassī Mahāthera, ; 1034 – 1115) was Thathanabaing of Burma of the Pagan Kingdom from 1056 to 1115. The monk, a native of Thaton Kingdom, was the religious adviser to four Pagan kings from ...

broke the news to the prince, who subsequently committed suicide.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 279–280 The princess had two children with Saw Yun: Soe Saing, and Sithu, who succeeded Kyansittha.

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