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Burma (Myanmar)

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U Ponnya

Died in 1867

U Ponnya, whose name was Maung Po Si, was born in Salé, in the Irrawaddy valley, in 1812, or in 1807 according to Jukka O. Miettinen. A poet and dramatist at the court of Mindon, with the title Minhla Thinkhaya, he wrote plays, songs and verse epistles whose humour and satire earned him enemies. Princes came to consult him on astrology and rites; after the palace revolt in which Prince Kanaung perished, he was accused of having served the conspirators, arrested and put to death in 1867, or as early as 1866 according to other accounts.

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