Narathihapate

Narathihapate (1238–1287), last king of the Pagan Empire, reigned from 1256, when Minister Yazathingyan placed him over his half-brother Thihathu. He once exiled Yazathingyan, then recalled him to crush revolts in Martaban and Arakan. Growing tax-free religious estates had long drained the treasury, yet he built the Mingalazedi Pagoda with forced labour.

In the Mongol invasions of 1277–1287 he fled Pagan for Lower Burma in 1285, earning the byname 'Taruk-Pyay Min', king who fled the Chinese. He submitted to Kublai Khan in January 1287, and that July his son Thihathu, Viceroy of Prome, forced him to take poison, after which the empire broke apart.