{"id":"min-saw-hla","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/min-saw-hla","language":"en","name":"Min Saw Hla","name_en":"Min Saw Hla","name_ne":null,"description":"Burmese monarch","headline":"Burmese monarch","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Min Saw Hla (Burmese: မင်းစောလှ, [mɪ́ɴ sɔ́ l̥a̰]; 1532–1564) was king of Arakan a former state in Myanmar (Burma), from 1556 to 1564. At accession, he made his first wife Saw Bon-Htut the chief queen but also married his father's chief queen Saw Thanda. He ordered a massive building program which built and repaired dams and irrigation canals as well as improved the defenses of Mrauk-U and other key towns around the kingdom. In 1561, he commissioned the building of Htukkanthein Temple.","summary_more":["He tightened control of Chittagong and the kingdom's northern perimeter. In the early 1560s, he sent the army to Tripura, whose ruler, according to Arakanese chronicles, submitted to Mrauk-U. He died in 1564 after a long illness. He had chosen his half-brother Min Sekkya to succeed him, and married Sekkya to his own full sister Dhamma Dewi."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1532","date":"1532"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6862582#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Mrauk U","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1951490"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6862582#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"24 July 1564","date":"1564-07-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6862582#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Mrauk U","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1951490"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6862582#P20"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"King of Arakan (6 March 1556 – 24 July 1564)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124662282","start":"1556-03-06","end":"1564-07-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6862582#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Saw_Hla","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6862582"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Min Saw Hla born?","a":"Min Saw Hla was born on 1532 in Mrauk U."},{"q":"What positions has Min Saw Hla held?","a":"Positions held by Min Saw Hla include: King of Arakan (1556–1564)."}],"related":[{"name":"Apaya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/apaya"},{"name":"Ba Saw Nyo","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ba-saw-nyo"},{"name":"Ba Saw Phyu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ba-saw-phyu"},{"name":"Min Dikkha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/min-dikkha"},{"name":"Gazapati","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gazapati"},{"name":"Kalamandat","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kalamandat"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Min Saw Hla","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Saw_Hla","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q6862582","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6862582","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Min Saw Hla, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Min Saw Hla\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/min-saw-hla. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T12:00:53Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/min-saw-hla","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/min-saw-hla","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/min-saw-hla?lang=ne"}}