Naratheinga Uzana

Naratheinga Uzana (Burmese: နရသိင်္ဃ ဥဇနာ, pronounced [nəɹa̰ θéiɴga̰]; also known as Naratheinkha Uzana; 1190s–1235) was the king of Pagan from c. 1231 to 1235. He is regarded by G.H. Luce and Than Tun as king between 1231 and 1235 but other historians such as Htin Aung and Michael Aung-Thwin do not accept him as king.^[2][3][4]

Naratheinga Uzana နရသိင်္ဃ ဥဇနာ
King of Pagan (disputed)
King of Burma (disputed)
Reign	1231? – 1235
Predecessor	Htilominlo
Successor	Kyaswa
Born	in or before 1197 Pagan (Bagan)
Died	July 1235 Pagan
Consort	Shin Saw Saw Min Waing
Issue	Uzana[1]
House	Pagan
Father	Htilominlo
Mother	Eindawthe
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

One contemporary stone inscription identifies him as the crown prince, and another identifies him as the king. Neither inscription provides any regnal dates but they were conjecturally dated c. 1230 or c. 1231 by Luce. Luce and Than Tun accept that he was king.^[3] It is not universally accepted. Htin Aung does not accept Luce's proposed regnal dates; he argues that the fact that none of the chronicles identifies him as king shows that "his succession was disputed or officially unrecognized." According to Htin Aung, he may have been a pretender to the throne for a few months.^[2] Aung-Thwin does not identify Naratheinga as king either.^{[note 1]}

Notes

1. See (Aung-Thwin and Aung-Thwin 2012: 99) and (Aung-Thwin 1985: 22).