Saw Diga စောဒီကာ | |
Succession: | Governor of Mye Ne |
Suc-Type: | Successor |
Spouse: | Saw Pale of Nyaungyan |
Issue: | Mohnyin Thado Nawrahta of Myedu Shin Myat Hla of Pakhan |
Father: | Min Pale of Paukmyaing |
Mother: | Shwe Einthe of Paukmyaing |
Birth Date: | 1360s |
Religion: | Theravada Buddhism |
Saw Diga (my|စောဒီကာ, in Burmese pronounced as /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 the Konbaung dynasty.[3]
The following is his ancestry according to the Alaungpaya Ayedawbon chronicle.[3] Note that his two times great-grandmother Pwa 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.