Tarabya I of Sagaing

Tarabya I တရဖျားကြီး
King of Sagaing
Reign	5 February 1327 – 1335/36
Predecessor	Saw Yun
Successor	Anawrahta I
Chief Minister	Nanda Pakyan
Born	8 July 1297 Monday, 2nd waning of 2nd Waso 659 ME
Died	c. August 1339 (aged 42) c. Tawthalin 701 ME Sagaing
Consort	Saw Hnaung
Issue	Anawrahta I
House	Myinsaing
Mother	Yadanabon of Pinya
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

Tarabya I (Burmese: တရဖျားကြီး, pronounced: [təja̰pʰjá dʑí];1297–1339) was king of Sagaing from 1327 to 1335/36. He succeeded King Saw Yun, his maternal half-brother. In 1335/36, he was brought put under arrest by his own son Shwetaungtet. The deposed king managed to have Shwetaungtet killed in 1339 but he himself was killed by Chief Minister Nanda Pakyan.

Tarabya was the only child of a commoner couple from Linyin in northern Burma. His mother may have been an ethnic Shan. His mother became a widow soon after his birth. She and her 1-year old were travelling south in 1298 when she met Thihathu, who was on a hunting trip. Thihathu, who had just founded the Myinsaing Kingdom with his two elder brothers, took her as a concubine. His mother was eventually raised to queen with the title of Yadanabon after his half-siblings Saw Yun and Saw Pale were born. Tarabya grew up at Thihathu's palace at Pinle, alongside his half-siblings as well as Uzana, biological son of King Kyawswa of Pagan, whom Thihathu had adopted as his own son. The family moved to Pinya in 1313 when Thihathu became the sole ruler of the Kingdom of Myinsaing–Pinya.

In 1315, Tarabya supported his half-brother Saw Yun's decision to revolt against Thihathu, and the brothers moved to Sagaing. In the following years, Tarabya became the deputy of Saw Yun, who managed to established himself as the de facto ruler of northern Upper Burma (present-day Sagaing Region and northern Mandalay Region). After Thihathu's death in 1325, Saw Yun officially broke away from Pinya and founded the Sagaing Kingdom.

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