10 Facts About Shin Sawbu

Shin Sawbu was the only daughter of the Mon King Razadarit who had two sons as well.

When Shin Sawbu went to Ava, she was 29 years old, a widow and a mother with a son and two daughters.

All members of Pegu's male line to the throne having been exhausted, Shin Sawbu ascended the throne as queen in early 1454.

Shin Sawbu chose a monk to succeed her on the throne of Pegu.

Shin Sawbu lived in Dagon next to the Shwedagon Pagoda until the end of her life in 1471.

Shin Sawbu extended the glebe lands supporting the pagoda to Danok.

Almost everything that Shin Sawbu did, she did in multiples of four:.

Shin Sawbu had her own weight in gold beaten out into gold leaf and covered the Shwedagon pagoda with this gold leaf.

Shin Sawbu devised a method to choose which one of the two monks had accompanied her during her residence in Ava should succeed her as ruler:.

Some hold that Shin Sawbu ruled for seven years, others seventeen years.