Nawadegyi

The first Nawade, known as Nawadegyi or Nawade of Prome, a court poet of the sixteenth century, was born in 1498 according to one source, in 1545 according to another. A man of war as much as of letters, he served several kings, among them Bayinnaung, who conferred on him the title of Nawade, later borne by other court poets. He composed more than three hundred yadu, which place him among the masters of that genre, and was the first layman to write a pyo. He died in 1588 or in 1600, a nonagenarian according to one tradition.

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• PoetryManawhari pyoNawadegyi · 1579not translated into EnglishLiterature