He first conferred the title of Thilawa and later Thu Mahar Thiri Dhammaraja, and received the appanage of Myingun [my].

[note 1][2] In 1858, he married his first cousin, Meen Cho Bo, Princess of Taungnyo, daughter of Crown Prince Kanaung, by his wife, Myauk-saung Shin Key.

He also married to saungya kolouptaw Shin O and Khinle Pya, the widow of his younger brother, the Prince of Myingundaing.

The British Colonial government sent them to Port Blair of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and then to Kolkata, Chunar and Varanasi.

[1] His efforts were largely stymied when Britain and France signed an agreement in 1904 that brought the colonial powers closer together, the Entente Cordiale.