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Thirithudamma (1622–38) deferred his coronation twelve years because the wise assured him it would be followed by his death a year later. Finally he learnt to avert fate by sacrificing⁴ the hearts of thousands of human beings, white cows and white pigeons, and was crowned in 1635, together with twelve vassal chiefs, amid the utmost splendour, his guards including Burmans, Talaings, Hindustanis, and even some Japanese Catholics. It was he who raided Pegū and brought back Anaukpetlun's bell (p. 495), which he set up at a pagoda near Mrohaung.¹ His queen had a royal kinsman as paramour, so he died suddenly, and his little son and heir soon followed him.