Nawade
Nawade(Burmese:နဝဒေး;also speltNawaday) is a title given by theBurmese kingsto thepoet laureatesof ancientBurma.Whereas there were at least five court poets who were given the title of Nawade[1]only two are frequently discussed in academic circles.[2]
First Nawade
[edit]The first Nawade (1498–1588), known asNawadegyias well as theProme Nawade,was a warrior and tutored the brother-in-law of theLord of Prome.[3]According to one traditional telling, Nawadegyi was the son of PrincessNarapati Medaw'sguardian.[4]Nawadegyi served multiple kings, includingSithu KyawhtinandBayinnaung(the latter of whom conferred the title upon him). He often wrote poetry that exalted the royal family, including missingManawhari Pyo(1579) which concerns the Thudanu Prince,[3]as well as more than three hundredyadus.[5]He was a nonagenarian at the time of his death.[3]
Second Nawade
[edit]The second Nawade,Dutiya(1756–1840), also known as Wetmasut Nawade after the town he frequented or Mawsun Nawade due to the fact that he wrote at least fifteenmawgunin his lifetime.[2]Three of them pertain to Burmeseconquests,includingAr-than-naing MawgunandRakhine Naing Mawgunon the conquests ofAssamandRakhinerespectively, as well as the missingDawei Naing Mawgunon the takeover ofDawei;[2]he also wroteTayok Than Yuak Mawgun(1821), which details the arrival of a group of Chinese officials to Burma.[6]When the manuscript of Letwe Nawrahta'sYodaya Naing Mawgunwas first catalogued, the poem was misattributed to the second Nawade, and this was not rectified until decades later.[2]
Influence
[edit]The firstAyeyarwady Riverbridge at Pyay-Sinde Road in Pyay, which was commissioned into service by the rulingtatmadawin 1997, was named the Nawade Bridge.[7]
References
[edit]- ^Khin Maung Nyuntt (1999).An Outline History of Myanmar Literature: Pagan Period to Kon-baung Period.Yangon. p. 71.ASINB00398UY4C.
- ^abcdThaw Kaung (2011)."The Myanmar Poetic Account of Ayutthaya Vanquished: Notes on Its Rediscovery and Significance"(PDF).p. 27.
- ^abc"Toungoo Period Writers"(PDF).Burma Press.Vol. 1, no. 8. November 1987. p. 11.
- ^"A Dictionary of Burmese Authors".Journal Of The Burma Research Society. 1920. p. 143.Retrieved23 May2018.
- ^Journal of the Burma Research Society.Vol. 54. Burmese Research Society. 1971. p. 63.
- ^U Kyaw Ei; Badgley, John H. (2009).Red peacocks: commentaries on Burmese socialist nationalism.Readworthy Publications.ISBN9789380009209.
- ^"Development in Bago Division after 1988"(PDF).The New Light of Myanmar.Vol. 12, no. 300. 10 February 2005. p. 10.