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( - Burma Myanmar King Wareru Radha Yudhavir The Shans who settled in Central Burma intermarried with the Mons who were the earlier residents of Burma. During this period, Wareru was born in April 1252, in the village named Doonwun in the province of Thaton. Although a Shan by ethnicity from his fathers side, he had

been Monised through interactions with his Mon neighbors and his Mon mother, ( = )

( ) - History of Burma: from the earliest time to the end of the first war with British India 52 Phayre when the Burmese governor, Alimma, was killed, and Wareru, a Shan by race, proclaimed himself King, ( = )

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( ) - The Shan of Burma: Memoirs of a Shan Exile 226 ) Chao Tzang Yawnghwe serving at the Sukhothai court in the late 13th century, after the fall of Pagan, Wareru made his way to Burma and established a Shan Kingdom in Martaban ( = Shan Kingdom )

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Buddhism in Myanmar: A Short History ( ) Roger Bischoff (Sasanavamsa) Sasanavamsa, one of Burmese Chronicles suggests an alternative source that Ashin Arahan was originally from Sri Lanka to study the Dhamma in Dvaravati and Thaton and he was on his way to Sarekhittara in search of a text when he was taken to King Anawratha by a hunter. ( = )

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(Phayre) (History of Burma () at length a great teacher, called in the Mah Rjweng, Arahan who had attained the blessed state of Arahat, arrived at the Burmese capital (Pagan). He had come from Thaton ( ( ) )

(Michael A. Aung Thwin) The Mists of Rmaa: The Legend That was Lower Burma 176/177/178 () (1057) () ( ) () (1057) (/)

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(Buddhism in Burma) Arahanthera arrived in the vicinity of Pagan and was discovered by a hunter while dwelling in a forest. The hunter, who had never before seen such a strange creature with a shaven head and a yellow robe, thought that this man might be someone who has some kind of spirit and took him to the King Anawratha. Arahanthera naturally set down the throne as it was the highest seat, and the King thought: this man is peaceful, in this man there is the essential thing ( = ( ) )

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Radha Yudhavir ) Phayre Chao Tzang Yawnghwe ) ) Roger Bischoff

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