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It was also the last year of peace in the kingdom. In 1362, Binnya U raised the Shwedagon Pagoda in Dagon to 20 meters (66 feet). In the following years, her husband became an important ally of her brother. The new king also made Bon La governor of Dagon (modern central Yangon) with the title of Bya Hta-Baik. In 1348, Binnya U ascended the Martaban throne, and made his sister marry Bon La, son of the powerful minister Than-Daw in a marriage alliance. The princess remained unmarried well into her mid-twenties. The young royals remained important as their powerful mother placed two successive kings and made herself their chief queen until 1348. The two siblings became fatherless in 1330 when Saw Zein died. The king gave Na the title "Maha Dewi", the name by which she would be known. Na became the king's eldest surviving child as Ne died young. Shortly after her birth, her father became king of Martaban.
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Since her younger brother was born in 1323/24, Na was born in or before 1322.
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Na had two full siblings: an elder sister Mwei Ne, and a younger brother Binnya U. At birth, she received the title Wihara Dewi because she was born during the construction of a monastery donated by her father. She was born Mwei Na ( Mon: မောံန, Burmese: မွေ့န) to Princess Sanda Min Hla, and Prince Saw Zein. The new king reappointed his adoptive mother to her old post at Dagon but purely in a ceremonial role. After Binnya U's death two months later, the court chose Nwe, who ascended the throne with the title of Razadarit. Her ailing brother formally handed her power in October 1383. When her nephew and adopted son Binnya Nwe raised a rebellion in 1383, Chief Minister Zeik-Bye secretly sided with Nwe. Powerful factions of the court used her alleged long-term affair with her much younger nephew-in-law Smim Maru to undermine her influence. But she never gained the support of the court. Prior to her brief reign as regent, she had been a close adviser of her brother since 1369, and the de facto ruler of the kingdom since the early 1380s. She was also governor of Dagon from 1364 to c. 1392) was princess-regent of Hanthawaddy for about ten weeks at the end of her brother King Binnya U's reign. Maha Dewi ( Burmese: မဟာဒေဝီ, pronounced c. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script.