Min Bala of Myaungmya

Min Bala, also called Smim Myaungmya, was governor of the port of Myaungmya from the 1290s and husband of Hnin U Yaing, sister of King Wareru, founder of Hanthawaddy.

In March 1311 he seized the Martaban throne and killed Wareru's successor Hkun Law, but at his wife's insistence yielded the crown to their eldest son Saw O on 10 April 1311. Until his death in the later 1310s Bala was the power behind the throne, ruling from his own palace outside Martaban much as a sovereign; his son Saw Zein later reigned as king.