ABSTRACT
In 1280, two brothers built a stockade round their village on the hill-spur taunggnu, and thus founded Toungoo; probably ferocious slave-raids from Karenni made the stockade a necessity. The Pagan kingdom was on its deathbed, and Toungoo grew up without even such slight traditions of loyalty as other towns possessed. The Shans made life so unbearable in Upper Burma that every and crowds of Burmese families would flock south and settle round Toungoo with its stronghold on the hill. In 1492, he founded Dwayawadi near the Lawkoktaya pagoda outside Toungoo and captured Kyaungbya, from the Talaings, killing its Shan governor in single combat by jumping on to his elephant and cutting him down. Minkyinyo could trace his descent through forbears of rank back to the Pagan dynasty, and dying at the age of seventy-two he bequeathed a great name to Tabinshwehti, his son by the daughter of the thugyi of Penwegon, six miles north of Toungoo.
