Pindale Princess
{{Short description|First Queen of the Western Palace of Mindon Min}}
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| succession = Queen of the Western Palace
| reign = 26 March 1853 – 26 July 1855
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| predecessor = Thiri Thu Yadana Mingala Dwei, Princess of Myadaung
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| successor = Thiri Maha Thu Sanda Yadana Dewi, Princess of Yinge
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| succession1 = Princess of Pindale
| reign1 = 8 July 1840 – 26 July 1855
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| predecessor1 = Pindale Mintha
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| birth_place = Amarapura Palace, Burma
| death_date = 26 July 1855
| death_place = Amarapura Palace
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| burial_place = Amarapura Palace
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| spouse = Mindon Min
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| regnal name = Thiri Maha Thu Sanda Dewi
| posthumous name = Pindale Princess
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| house = Konbaung
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| dynasty = Konbaung dynasty
| father = Tharrawaddy Min
| mother = Kanaung Mibaya, the Queen of the Northern Apartment
| religion = Theravada Buddhism
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Thiri Maha Thu Sanda Dewi ({{langx|my|သီရိမဟာသုစန္ဒာဒေဝီ}}, {{langx|pi|Sīrimahāsucandādevi}}), also known as the Princess of Pindale, was the first Queen of the Western Palace of Mindon Min, the tenth king of Konbaung dynasty.{{cite book |last1=ကြမ်း (မောင်) |first1=ပုဆိုး |title=ကနောင်မင်းသား|date=2007 |publisher=အလင်းသစ်စာပေ |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5DB3AAAAMAAJ&q=%E1%80%95%E1%80%91%E1%80%99%E1%80%A1%E1%80%94%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8 |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=my}}
Early life
Pindale Princess, the eldest of two siblings, was born to Tharrawaddy Min and Kanaung Mibaya, the Queen of the Northern Apartment.{{cite book |last1=တင် (ဦး) |first1=မောင်မောင် |title=ကုန်းဘောင်ဆက်မဟာရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး |date=2004 |publisher=လောကစာပေ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5WNuAAAAMAAJ&q=editions:UOM39015064303657 |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=my}}{{rp|114}} At the opening ceremony of her father's royal throne, held from 8 to 10 July 1840, she received the title of Thiri Thu Manla Wadi and the appanage of Pindale.{{cite book |last1=တင် (ဦး) |first1=မောင်မောင် |title=ကုန်ဘောင်ဆက်မဟာရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး |date=2004 |publisher=လောကစာပေ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGNuAAAAMAAJ&q=editions:UOM39015064303657 |language=my}}{{rp|406}} During the reign of Pagan Min, her royal title was Thiri Yadana Thu Sanda Dewi.{{rp|50}}
As a queen
When Mindon Min ascended the throne, she became the Queen of the Western Palace on 26 March 1853, which made her the queen of first rank.{{rp|114}} On 16 June 1854, at the opening ceremony of Mindon's throne, she was honoured the title of Thiri Maha Thu Sanda Dewi.{{rp|144}}
On 27 June 1855, she gave birth to a son at around 8:07 am who died two days later at 3:24 pm and a daughter at 10:30 pm who died at 4:12 am in the same day.{{rp|157}}
Death
She died on 26 July 1855 and was buried in her compound at the Amarapura Palace.{{rp|159}} She was replaced by her younger sister Princess of Yinge as the second Queen of the Western Palace.