Pyinzi Supaya

Thu Pabawadi (Burmese: သုပဘာဝတီ, 1861 – 1915), commonly known as Pyinzi Princess (Burmese: ပြင်စည်မင်းသမီး) or Pyinzi Supaya (Burmese: ပြင်စည်စုဖုရား), was a high-ranking royal princess of the late Konbaung dynasty.[1]

Pyinzi Supaya
Pyinzi Supaya
Princess of Pyinzi
Reign1866–1885
PredecessorThado Minye
SuccessorDisestablished
Princess of Taungdwingyaung
Reign1861–1866
Born1861
Mandalay Palace
Died1915 (1916) (aged 54)
Mandalay
Burial
Konbaung tombs
SpouseU Pe
IssuePyinzi Thameedawgyi
Pyinzi Thameedawlat
Pyinzi Kodawle
Regnal name
Thu Pabawadi
HouseKonbaung
FatherKing Mindon
MotherMagway Mibaya
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

Life
Pyinzi Supaya at age of 25

Pyinzi Supaya was born to King Mindon and his consort Magway Mibaya in 1861 at the Mandalay Palace. Her father gave her the appanage of Taungdwingyaung. When Thado Minye, Prince of Pyinzi, was assassinated in the Myingun Myinkhondaing rebellion, she received the appanage of Pyinzi, and was known thereafter as Pyinzi Princess.[2]

When her sister, Mingin Supaya, was executed in 1883, the family and its servants were sent as slaves to Man Aung Yadana Wakhingone Pagoda. Later, at a sayadaw's request, Supayalat set them free, but they remained under house arrest until the abdication of King Thibaw in 1885.[3] Although they were not favored by Supayalat, she remained on good terms with the family and attended the ear-boring ceremony of the daughters of King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat in Ratnagiri in 1910.

Pyinzi Supaya died on 18 May 1915 at the age of 54 and was buried in the Mandalay Palace enclosure (see Konbaung tombs).

Distinctions
Portrait of Pyinzi Supaya painted by James Raeburn Middleton

Because her mother was senior royalty, Pyinzi Supaya received the title Supaya.[4] She accompanied Setkya Dewi whenever she traveled about the palace in the royal palanquin and was one of eleven princesses who had the right to wear ghanamattaka clothes during King Mindon's reign.

At the Rajabiseka Muddha consecration of her father in 1874, Pyinzi Supaya, wearing ghanamattaka clothes, together with her seven sisters, poured a libation on the king's head and made speeches.

Family

Pyinzi Supaya married U Pe and gave birth to Pyinzi Thameedawgyi, Pyinzi Thameedawlat, and Pyinzi Kodawle. Pyinzi Kodawle died at a young age. The British government contributed 15 rupees to fund her daughters' educations.

References
  1. တင် (ဦး), မောင်မောင် (2004). ကုန်းဘောင်ဆက်မဟာရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး (in Burmese). လောကစာပေ.
  2. လှ, တိုး (2004). နှစ်ဆယ်ရာစု၏ မဟာလူသား: အရှင်ဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ၊ တိပိဋကဓရ ဓမ္မဘဏ္ဍာဂါရိက (in Burmese). Myanmar Historical Commission.
  3. တိုး, တင်နိုင် (2002). နွမ်းလျမာလာ၊ ဝိုးတဝါးအနာဂတ်နှင့် ပါတော်မူပြီးစ မန္တလေး (in Burmese). ယုံကြည်ချက်စာပေ.
  4. သန်းထွန်း (ဒေါက်တာ), ̋ (1968). နယ်လှည့်ရာဇဝင် (in Burmese). နံ့သာတိုက်.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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