The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s5.1

v3.c29.s5.1

In 1280 two brothers built a stockade round their village on the hill-spur (*taunggnu*), and thus founded Toungoo; the stockade was probably a necessity against the ferocious slave-raiders of Karenni. The Pagān kingdom was then on its death-bed, and Toungoo grew up without even such slight traditions of loyalty as other towns possessed. In the next two centuries she was ruled by twenty-eight chiefs, of whom fifteen perished by assassination.