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Thiri Thudhamma also calledSrisudhammaraja (Arakanese:သီရိသုဓမ္မ;c. April 1602 - 31 May 1638) whose personal name wasMin Hari (မင်းဟရီ), also known asSalim Shah II was a king of theMrauk-U Dynasty ofArakan.

After the death ofMin Khamaung, his son and crown prince Min Hari ascended the throne and took on the title of Thiri Thudhamma. He would work on repairing infrastructure built in the time ofMin Bin, including the defences of the city of Mrauk U.^[1]

During Thudhamma's rule of Arakan,Muhammad Khurram (later Shah Jahan) took control of neighbouringMughal Bengal in 1624. Thudamma took advantage of the Bengal crisis by leading a raid intoBhalwa (Noakhali),^[2] where he defeated the local administratorMirza Baqi and returned to Arakan with plenty ofwar booty.^[3]

Thudhamma's commanding officer wasAshraf Khan, a devotedSufi Muslim and the patron of renownedBengali poetDaulat Qazi.^[4][5]

During his reign, in April 1624, the Dutch began trade relations with the city of Mrauk U.^[6]

In 1628, theLaungkrakca (Rakhine:လောင်းကြက်စား); governor ofLaunggyet) rebelled and posed a threat of Thiri Thudhamma's reign. The rebellion was put down and many leading men executed, but this only furthered the importance of futureLaungkrakca.^[7]

At the time, the Arakanese chronicle tradition hadprophecised that the Mrauk U lineage of kings would end by the turn of the first millennium- roughly 1638 according to the Arakanese era. Rumours of Thiri Thudhamma's impending death circulated not long after his coronation. In the 1630s, the various court ministers in Mrauk U became more aggressive in vying for power.^[7]

On 31 May 1638, Thiri Thudhamma mysteriously died. His son and crown princeMin Sanay ascended the throne. Then On 26 June, Sanay also mysteriously died. The court blamed it on Thiri Thudhamma castingsorcery on his son. After this, theLaugkrakca ascended the throne asNarapati.^[8] HistorianJacques Leider ascribes this chain of events as acoup d'état by theLaungkrakca.^[9]

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