The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s3.41

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Mohnyinthado’s sons, Minrekyawswa (1440–43) and Narapati (1443–69), overran Kale and Mohnyin for a time, and captured the Maw Shān chief Thonganbwa when he was being hard pressed by Yünnan. Narapati refused to surrender him and in 1445 drove off the Yünnan levies at Kaungton in the Bhamo district. But when in 1446 they appeared in strength before Ava, he yielded, Thonganbwa committed suicide, so only his dead body could be given up; the Chinese removed the intestines, dried the body in the sun and at the fire, thrust an iron spit through it and took it away².