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Shin Maha Rahtathara

1468–1530 · 16th century

Shin Maha Rahtathara was a Burmese Buddhist monk and poet of the Ava court, who lived from 1468 to 1530. He wrote long verse works, the best known being the Buridat Linkagyi, a retelling of a Jataka tale. With Shin Maha Thilawuntha he made the late 15th and early 16th centuries a golden age of Burmese literature.

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