Min Sanay

During his father, Thiri Thudhamma's reign the Laungkrakca ({{langx|rki|လောင်းကြက်စား}}); governor of Launggyet) became an important position in the Mrauk U royal court after a rebellion in 1628. In the waning years of his father's reign, various court ministers became aggressive vying for power based on a prophecy in the Arakanese chronicle tradition that the Mrauk U lineage of kings would end in 1638 CE (1000 according to the Arakanese era).{{sfn|van Gelen|2002|p=157}}

When Thiri Thudhamma died on 31 May 1638, Min Sanay succeeded the throne and was crowned 15 days later on 16 June.{{sfn|van Gelen|2002|p=158}} After ascending the throne, Min Sanay suffered from smallpox and his mother Nat Shin Mae advised him to move to "Winzama" , northeast of Mrauk U, for a short period of time to cure his disease.{{cn|date=April 2024}} Min Sanay followed the advice of his mother and moved to Winzama. There, he was poisoned to death by his own mother Nat Shin Mae. He ruled the kingdom only 20 days.{{inconsistent}} According to Dutch factory chief Adam van der Mandere, Sanay died on 26 June one day after he congratulated the new king in Mrauk U. The court blamed it on sorcery that Thiri Thudhamma had cast on his son.{{sfn|van Gelen|2002|p=158}}

After the death of Min Sanay, Nat Shin Mae enthroned her secret lover Ngakuthala (later Narapati). Many nobles who disagreed her were murdered and some escaped.{{cn|date=April 2024}} Narapati was the Laungkrakca at the time of Thiri Thudhamma's death and, therefore, had significant power within the court. Historian Jacques Leider ascribes this chain of events as a coup d'état by the Laungkrakca.{{cite journal |title=La route de Am (Arakan) |trans-title=The Road to Arakan |last=Leider |first=Jacques |author-link=Jacques Leider |journal=Journal Asiatique |volume=282 |issue=2 |pages=335-370 |year=1994}}

{{Reflist}}

• A history of Rakhineland in brief By Aung Hla Thein{{full citation needed|date=January 2024}}
• New Arakanese chronicle By Ven. Candamālālaṇkāra{{full citation needed|date=January 2024}}

• {{cite book | last=Harvey | first=G. E.| title=History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824 | publisher=Frank Cass & Co. Ltd | year=1925 | location = London}}
• {{cite book | title=Myanma Swezon Kyan | publisher=Sarpay Beikman | language=Burmese | location=Yangon | year=1964 | edition=1 | volume=9 | editor=Myat Soe}}
• {{cite book | last=Myint-U | author-link=Thant Myint-U | first=Thant | title=The River of Lost Footsteps—Histories of Burma | year=2006 | publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux | isbn=978-0-374-16342-6}}
• {{cite book | last=Sandamala Linkara | first=Ashin | title=Rakhine Yazawinthit Kyan | year= 1931 | edition=1997 | publisher=Tetlan Sarpay | language=Burmese | volume=1–2 | location=Yangon}}
• {{cite book |title=The Maritime Frontier of Burma |chapter=Arakan at the Turn of the First Millenium of the Arakanese Era |author-last=van Gelen |author-first=Stephan |editor-last1=Gommans |editor-first1=Jos |editor-last2=Leider |editor-first2=Jacques |editor-link2=Jacques Leider |date=2002 |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |location=Amsterdam |pages=151-162}}

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