The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s3.35

v3.c29.s3.35

Now that both his mother and sister were captives, Minrekyawswa became a fiend. ‘As a crocodile eats his victims, so will I rend the flesh of the Talaings,’ he said³. His father Minhkaung went no more to war, for his nerves were shattered after the fight at Pankyaw. But Minrekyawswa took charge. Year after year he carried fire and sword into the hapless Delta, defeating all comers, deporting the population wholesale, and making life so unbearable that in Myaungmya and Bassein men dared not work their fields, and in 1415 the whole west side paid him homage. Things came to such a pass that a hundred Talaings would run at the sight of a couple of Shān-Burmans.