Sao Nang
deity water single tradition · 1
Sao Nang sacrificed herself for the people and the kingdom so that the Zeedaw Dam on the Zawgyi River could finally be built. She and her siblings then appeared before King Anawrahta and asked for a divine place as apaing-za to live. Anawrahta granted them the Kyaukse Nine Agricultural Districts as their spiritual domain and ordered the people in those districts to worship them as guardian deities.
When
- First attested
- 740 CE
- Attested period
- 740 – 740
- Historical notes
- Sacrificed herself so that the Zeedaw Dam on the Zawgyi River could finally be built.
Relationships
- sibling of
- Ko Thein Shin, Sao Aung, Saw Mon Hla
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“His two sisters died in Kyaukse, sacrificing themselves so that the Zeedaw Dam on the Zawgyi River, which had failed many times, could finally be built. Prophets had told King Anawrahta that the dam would only succeed if a sacred royal lady was offered.”
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