Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu

Descent

The information on Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu in the Burmese chronicles are not reliable and partially applied adhesive.

Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu stemmed from an early king of Bagan from Tannet called and took over the throne from Nyaung- u Sawrahan. He married three of the main women of his predecessor, two of which were already pregnant and gave birth to sons: Sokkate and Kyiso. Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu took the two babies as his children, he fathered another son, Anawrahta, who was born 1014.

Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu has, according to the chronicles, ruled 964-986, but one expects from the accession of his son's ( 1044 ) backward, so there is a reign of 992-1014.

After Sokkate and Kyiso were grown up, they forced her adoptive father to abdicate and took him to a temple. Sokkate married the mother of Anawrahta, however in 1044 his stepfather killed in a duel. He then offered his father to the throne, but rejected in favor of his son.

Kunhsaw died four years after the accession of his son, ie 1048/1049. The chronicles of an age of 115 years. After his death, he went as Nat in the Burmese pantheon and was named Htihpyusaung Nat