Taung Pyinthe (Narathu)

Taung Pyinthe တောင်ပြင်သည်
Chief Queen Consort of Burma
Tenure	1167 – 1171
Predecessor	Ti Lawka Sanda Dewi
Successor	Min Aung Myat
Spouse	Narathu
House	Pagan
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

Taung Pyinthe (Burmese: တောင်ပြင်သည်, pronounced: [tàʊɴ bjìɴ ðɛ̀]; lit. "Queen of the Southern Palace") was the chief queen consort of King Narathu of the Pagan Dynasty of Myanmar (Burma).

Her existence is inferred. None of the main chronicles has a record of the names of the queens of Narathu. The Yazawin Thit chronicle explicitly says no records of Narathu's queens could be found.^[1] Yazawin Thit and Hmannan Yazawin^[2] mention only that Naratheinkha and Sithu II had the same mother. Per Than Tun, their mother was the North Queen.^[3] It means there was a South Queen.

References

1. Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 122
2. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 312
3. Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 124, footnote 2, citing Than Tun

Bibliography

• Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.