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Yama Zatdaw: the Ramayana Burma took as war booty

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Burma's Ramayana came partly from Thai court artists captured in war.

Burma's Yama Zatdaw is framed as a Jataka and unofficially called the national epic. Earliest pictorial evidence is at Nathlaung Temple, Bagan; earliest literary reference is a 1527 pyo. After the Konbaung invasion of Ayutthaya, Thai Ramakien elements entered it. Rama Thachin (c. 1775) and U Toe's later works followed.

Who: Yama, Thida, U Toe

Bound to

Ramakien: Rama I's Thai epic same-story-other-version

Places: Bagan, Myanmar, Myanmar

Where this comes from

• regional-literary · Wikipedia: Yama Zatdaw

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