Saw Diga of Mye-Ne

In this Burmese name, Saw is an honorific.

Saw Diga (Burmese: စောဒီကာ, pronounced: [sɔ́ dìgà]) was the father of King Mohnyin Thado of Ava.^[1] He was a 14th-century governor of Mye-Ne (present-day Nyaung U in central Myanmar). His descendants became kings of Ava down to 1527.^[2] He was also a nine-times great grandfather of King Alaungpaya of Konbaung Dynasty.^[3]

Ancestry

The following is his ancestry according to the Alaungpaya Ayedawbon chronicle.^[3] Note that his two times great grandmother Hpwa Gyi was a daughter of King Uzana of Pagan, and his two times great grandfather Yanda Pyissi was a son of Yazathingyan, the chief minister of Pagan.

References

Bibliography

• Htin Aung, Maung (1967). A History of Burma. New York and London: Cambridge University Press. 
• Letwe Nawrahta and Twinthin Taikwun (c. 1770). Hla Thamein, ed. Alaungpaya Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (1961 ed.). Ministry of Culture, Union of Burma. 
• Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese) 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.