ABSTRACT
The obvious site was Ava in Sagaing district, where the Myitnge river brought down the grain boats from Kyaukse. Like every other chief of Ava, Minkyiswasawke had even less control over Toungoo than over other outlying areas. The fact that throughout the fifteenth century Tharrawaddy was subject to Prome and was held by a governor who was appointed, at least nominally, by Ava, suggests that one cause of the war was the need of Ava to trade along the Irrawaddy as far south as possible. In 1430 two monks returned from Ceylon with five relics and though the Talaings stopped them at Bassein they insisted on reaching Ava where the whole court came out to meet them. The news of his death spread consternation among the Burmese garrisons in the Delta. Some of the levies collapsed and fled back to Ava. Thohanbwa’s right hand was Minkyiyanaung, a Burman officer of the old Ava court.
