Razadarit

Razadarit is the great warrior-king of Hanthawaddy and the central hero of the Razadarit Ayedawbon, the Mon prose epic that recounts his reign in cycles of stratagem, filial conflict and battle. Seizing the throne against his own father's disfavour, he welded the three Mon provinces of Pegu, Bassein and Martaban into one kingdom and defended it through the long Forty Years' War against the Burmese kingdom of Ava. Though a historical sovereign, he is remembered in a heightened, legendary key as the model of Mon kingship and cunning, and his epic remains among the most celebrated works of Mon and Burmese literature.

Children

• Shin Sawbu

Domains

• warfare kingship

Powers

• unify the three Mon provinces of Rāmaññadesa

Epithets

• Rājādhirāja — King of KingsNai Pan Hla, Razadarit Ayedawbon (Yangon, 1968) (primary)

Relations

• child: Shin SawbuQueen Shin Sawbu was his daughter.G. E. Harvey, History of Burma (London: Longmans, Green, 1925) (secondary)

Sources

• Razadarit, warrior-king of Hanthawaddy (r. c. 1384–1421), is the hero of the Mon prose epic Razadarit Ayedawbon and unifier of the Mon provinces.: Nai Pan Hla, Razadarit Ayedawbon (Yangon, 1968); U San Lwin (trans.), 'The Campaigns of Rajadhirat' (primary); Jon Fernquest, 'Rajadhirat's Mask of Command', SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 4.1 (2006) (secondary)