Yet another Dha

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Alam Shah

The only reference I can find on "Maung Po Thein" is a reference to a forced labor villager from Win-ka-na village, Win-yae Township.

http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/year...ed%20labor.htm

This is too recent, of course, but it points to it being a family name, rather than a title. My is inscribed to Thado Thiri Min Hla Kaung, by the way (in Burmese script). I haven't been able to find anything of him, either, but "Thado," "Thiri," and I believe even "Kaung" can be titles (there is a similar-sounding word in Thai that is a title), as well as names, and Min Hla is a personal name as well as the name of a town. Peoples "names" changed when their position or status changed, and are often recorded by their titles without any inclusion of their given name. Like everything about dha, it is very confounding.