{ "id": "epn65pevkb", "slug": "binnya-dala", "title": "Binnya Dala", "updated": "2026-10-25", "topic_path": [ { "id": "society", "label": "Society and history", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society" }, { "id": "society.history", "label": "History and archaeology", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.history" }, { "id": "society.history.asia", "label": "Asian history", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.history.asia" }, { "id": "society.history.asia.southeast-asia", "label": "Southeast Asia", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.history.asia.southeast-asia" }, { "id": "society.history.asia.southeast-asia.mm-pagan-toungoo", "label": "Burma from Pagan to the Toungoo empire, with Ava, Hanthawaddy, and Arakan (849 to 1752)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/society.history.asia.southeast-asia.mm-pagan-toungoo" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.asia.t1800.society.history.asia.southeast-asia", "label": "Asia (other) · 1800 to 1945: Southeast Asia", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1800.society.history.asia.southeast-asia", "path": [ { "id": "geo.asia", "label": "Asia (other)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1800", "label": "Asia (other) · 1800 to 1945", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1800" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1800.society", "label": "Society and history", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1800.society" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1800.society.history", "label": "History and archaeology", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1800.society.history" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1800.society.history.asia", "label": "Asian history", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1800.society.history.asia" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t1800.society.history.asia.southeast-asia", "label": "Southeast Asia", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t1800.society.history.asia.southeast-asia" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Binnya Dala was the last king of the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom at Pegu in southern Myanmar, reigning from 1747 to 1757; he captured Ava in 1752 before his capital fell to Alaungpaya in 1757.", "snippet": "Binnya Dala was the last king of the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom at Pegu in southern Myanmar, reigning from 1747 to 1757; he captured Ava in 1752 before his capital fell to Alaungpaya in 1757.", "node": "society.history.asia.southeast-asia.mm-pagan-toungoo", "markdown": "# Binnya Dala\n\nBinnya Dala was the last king of the [Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom](https://www.edgepedia.org/restored-hanthawaddy-kingdom), the Mon-led state based at Pegu (Bago) in southern Myanmar, reigning from 1747 to 1757.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala) A former chief minister who took the throne from his predecessor, he captured Ava in 1752 and extinguished the Burman Toungoo dynasty, before his own capital fell to [Alaungpaya](https://www.edgepedia.org/alaungpaya) in 1757.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala) He was kept captive and was executed by Alaungpaya's son [Hsinbyushin](https://www.edgepedia.org/hsinbyushin) in 1774.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala)\n\n| Fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Reign | 1747–1757, as last king of Restored Hanthawaddy (Pegu)[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [3](https://www.biographies.net/people/en/binnya_dala) |\n| Predecessor | Smim Htaw Buddhaketi, whom he had served as chief minister[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala) |\n| High point | Capture of Ava in 1752 and end of the Toungoo dynasty[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala) |\n| Defeat | Fall of Pegu to Alaungpaya in May 1757[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [4](https://www.phersu-atlas.com/chronology/event2651.html) |\n| Death | Executed in captivity by Hsinbyushin, 1774[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala) |\n\n## Accession and family\n\nThe kingdom Binnya Dala came to rule had been created by a successful Mon revolt against Toungoo (Burman) rule in 1740, with its capital at Pegu.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) The ministers had set up Smim Htaw Buddhaketi as nominal king, while Binnya Dala, as prime minister, wielded actual power.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [3](https://www.biographies.net/people/en/binnya_dala) \n\nHow he took the throne is dated differently by different sources. He succeeded Smim Htaw Buddhaketi in 1747 and was the more capable military leader of the two.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) The succession is also described as a 1747 palace coup.[2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala) \n\n## Reign: wars and administration\n\nBinnya Dala continued the war against the [Toungoo dynasty](https://www.edgepedia.org/toungoo-dynasty). After years of lower-grade fighting, he raised a large army for the conquest of northern Myanmar; the raising of this army is dated to 1751,[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) while the launch of the full-scale invasion of Upper Burma is dated to 1750.[3](https://www.biographies.net/people/en/binnya_dala)\n\nThe armies advanced north and took Ava, the capital, in 1752; the month is given as April[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) • [3](https://www.biographies.net/people/en/binnya_dala) or as March 1752. The capture extinguished the Burman Toungoo dynasty.[2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala)\n\nThe occupation provoked Burman resistance. In March 1752, a village headman of Moksobo named Aung Zeya founded the Konbaung Dynasty with the title of Alaungpaya to resist the Mon occupation.[4](https://www.phersu-atlas.com/chronology/event2651.html) Binnya Dala launched another full-scale invasion in March 1754; it laid siege to Ava and advanced deep into upcountry but was driven back with heavy losses.[3](https://www.biographies.net/people/en/binnya_dala) • [5](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/myanmar/history-konbaung-1.htm) After the defeat, the Hanthawaddy leadership executed all Avan captives, including the last king of Toungoo; the execution is dated to two years after the capture of Ava, that is 1754.[3](https://www.biographies.net/people/en/binnya_dala) • [1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala)\n\nOn administration, Hanthawaddy's kings divided government into two parts, central administration by the king himself in the nuclear zone and provincial administration over the rest.[6](https://www.maas.edu.mm/Research/Admin/pdf/5.%20Dr%20Tin%20Tin%20Win(59-74).pdf)\n\n## Political influence\n\nHis capture of Ava destroyed the Toungoo dynasty and brought Lower Burma and parts of Upper Burma under Hanthawaddy rule.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) The resistance his occupation provoked, however, produced the Konbaung Dynasty, founded by Alaungpaya in March 1752, which went on to reunify Burma.[4](https://www.phersu-atlas.com/chronology/event2651.html) The fall of his kingdom in 1757 ended a long history of independent Mon states and the [Mon people](https://www.edgepedia.org/mon-people)'s centuries-old dominance of Lower Burma; Konbaung reprisals forced thousands of Mons to flee to Siam.[2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala)\n\n## End of the reign and succession\n\nThe capital Pegu fell on 6 May 1757 to the Konbaung Dynasty, ending the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom and Binnya Dala's reign.[4](https://www.phersu-atlas.com/chronology/event2651.html) • [1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) Following repeated Mon uprisings in Lower Burma and Burman fears that the Mons would ally with Siam, Alaungpaya's son Hsinbyushin executed the captive Binnya Dala in 1774.[2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala) • [1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala)\n\n## Historians' assessment\n\nReference accounts judge Binnya Dala a more capable military leader than the king he replaced, and credit his reign with the conquest of northern Myanmar and the capture of Ava.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala) The same accounts treat his reign as the final episode of Mon independence: his capital's fall in 1757, with great bloodshed, marked the end of a long history of independent Mon states.[2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala) He executed the last king of the Toungoo dynasty in 1754.[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Binnya Dala | Burmese Monarch, Military Leader | Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Binnya-Dala)\n2. [Binnya Dala (Dictionary of Burmese history, archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814052420/https:/hist_burma.enacademic.com/104/Binnya_Dala)\n3. [Biography of Binnya Dala](https://www.biographies.net/people/en/binnya_dala)\n4. [How did Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War reshape the political map? (1752 AD–1757 AD)](https://www.phersu-atlas.com/chronology/event2651.html)\n5. [Konbaung Kingdom - Alaungpaya and His Sons](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/myanmar/history-konbaung-1.htm)\n6. [A Study on the Causes of the Disintegration of Hanthawaddy Kingdom](https://www.maas.edu.mm/Research/Admin/pdf/5.%20Dr%20Tin%20Tin%20Win(59-74).pdf)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Society and history › History and archaeology › Asian history › Southeast Asia › Burma from Pagan to the Toungoo empire, with Ava, Hanthawaddy, and Arakan (849 to 1752)*\n\n*Initially written Sep 24, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/binnya-dala", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/binnya-dala.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. 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