The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s2.10

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Minrazagyi (Salīm Shāh) (1593–1612), the founder of the Parabaw pagoda at Mrohaung, employed De Brito in the expedition against Pegū (p. 494). It comprised land levies which went over the passes, as well as a flotilla from Chittagong and the Ganges delta. On the return journey the wise minister Mahapinnyakyaw, lord of Chittagong, died and was buried by the Hmawdin pagoda at Negrais; he had served the king from youth up, and his compilation of legal precedents, Mahapinnyakyaw *pyatton*, which placed the interpretation of Manu *dhammathat* lawbooks¹ on a definitely Buddhist basis, was thereafter among the most valuable works of its kind throughout Burma.