Yanda Pyissi

Yanda Pyissi ရန္တ ပစ္စည်း
Minister
In office 1270s – 1284
Monarch	Narathihapate
Personal details
Born	Ot-Hla Nge c. 1240s Pagan (Bagan)
Died	c. 5 February 1284 Tagaung
Children	Khin Hpone
Religion	Theravada Buddhism
Military service
Allegiance	Pagan Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Burmese Army
Years of service	1259–84
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Missagiri (1259–60) Mongol invasions (1277, 1283–84)

Yanda Pyissi (Burmese: ရန္တ ပစ္စည်း, pronounced: [ʔjàɴda̰ pjɪʔsí]; also spelled Rantapyissi; c. 1240s – 1284) was a minister in the service of King Narathihapate of the Pagan Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). He was also a general in the Royal Burmese Army under the command of his elder brother Ananda Pyissi. Together they unsuccessfully fought against the first two Mongol invasions (1277–85). Ava kings from Mohnyin Thado to Narapati II, and all Konbaung kings were descended from him.

He was born Ot-Hla Nge (အုတ်လှငယ်) c. early 1240s to a senior official family in Pagan (Bagan). His father was Yazathingyan, then a minister (အမတ်) at the Pagan court, and his mother may have been Saw Khin Htut, a daughter of King Kyaswa of Pagan. He had an elder brother Ot-Hla Gyi, and two younger sisters Saw San and Saw Soe. The family grew up in Pagan where his father eventually rose to be the chief minister by 1248.

He and his elder brother both followed his father's footsteps, and by the late 1250s had entered the royal service. The first mention of Ot-Hla Nge in the Burmese chronicles came in 1258 when he was sent by the young king Narathihapate to the front to Missagiri (in present-day Rakhine State) where the army had been trying to put down a rebellion, with an order to execute Thray Pyissapate, the commander of the operation, for his failure to defeat the rebellion. Fortunately for Thray Pyissapate, Ot-Hla Nge was intercepted midway by his father, who was on his way back from Martaban (Mottama), having put down a rebellion there.

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