Narathihapate

Who was Narathihapate?

Narathihapate was the last king of Pagan dynasty of Burma from 1256 to 1287. The king is unkindly remembered for two things: his gluttonous appetite which supposedly required all his dinners to have 300 varieties of dishes; and his panic flight from Mongol invasions. He is known as Tayok-Pyay Min,. At Lower Burma, the king was poisoned by his second son Thihathu. Nearly 250 years of Pagan's rule over the Irrawaddy basin and its periphery came to an end. The country broke apart into multiple kingdoms, an interregnum that would last for another 250 years until the emergence of Toungoo dynasty reunited the country in the mid-16th century.