Thihapate of Yamethin

Thihapate (c. 1318–c. 1351), also called Chauk-Hse Shin, the Lord of Sixty Elephants, was the second son of King Uzana I of Pinya. Uzana had held the throne since 1325 but never shook off his rival Kyawswa, and came to rely on this younger son.

In the late 1330s he made him governor of Yamethin, where Thihapate kept sixty war elephants and a large standing army. When Kyawswa I drove Uzana from power between 1340 and 1344, Thihapate weighed rebellion, but the governor of Nyaungyan would not join him, and he submitted after Kyawswa sent a rare black stallion from Onbaung.

The chronicles do not mention him again, and by 1351 Swa Saw Ke governed Yamethin, so Thihapate may have died or been removed from office.