Min Saw Hla

Min Saw Hla (Burmese: မင်းစောလှ, [mɪ́ɴ sɔ́ l̥a̰]; 1532–1564) was king of Arakan a former state in Myanmar (Burma), from 1556 to 1564.

At accession, he made his first wife Saw Bon-Htut the chief queen but also married his father's chief queen Saw Thanda.

He ordered a massive building program which built and repaired dams and irrigation canals as well as improved the defenses of Mrauk-U and other key towns around the kingdom.

[note 2] He tightened control of Chittagong and the kingdom's northern perimeter.

In the early 1560s, he sent the army to Tripura, whose ruler, according to Arakanese chronicles, submitted to Mrauk-U.