1. Pyusawhti was then educated by a local monk named Yathekyaung.
11 Facts About Pyusawhti
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Hmannan asserts that Pyusawhti was actually a scion of this Tagaung royalty.
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Hmannan continues that the young Pyusawhti began his education at seven at the local monastery run by a monk named Yathekyaung.
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Pyusawhti received an education in arts, religion and martial arts.
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Pyusawhti soon learned that the city's environs had been terrorized by four giant savage monsters: a Giant Bird, a Giant Boar, a Giant Tiger and a Giant Greater Glider.
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The king then gave his daughter in marriage to Pyusawhti and made him his heir-apparent.
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Pyusawhti extended his dominion to upper Irrawaddy, recovering the territory which had been lost to the Chinese in the previous years.
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Historians conjecture that the historical Pyusawhti was likely a minor chief of the Nanzhao Kingdom, who was in the vanguard of the Nanzhao invasions of the upper Irrawaddy valley that began in 754.
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The Pagan "kingdom" Pyusawhti led was likely a small settlement among many other small settlements in the area.
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In 1956, the Burmese government under U Nu devised a local village and town defence scheme, which used paramilitary units called 'Pyusawhti' to assist the Burmese military in counterinsurgency operations.
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The term 'Pyusawhti' re-emerged in the 2000s, used by Burmese media in reference pro-military networks and groups.