[1] His descendants founded the kingdoms that succeeded Pagan: Myinsaing, Pinya, Sagaing and Ava.
According to the Burmese chronicles, Theinkha Bo was born in Binnaka to the sawbwa (saopha) (chief) of the town.
He eventually settled at Myinsaing, a small town located in present-day Kyaukse District, and married a woman from a wealthy family there in 1260.
[1] His three sons served in the Pagan army, and became commanders that King Narathihapate relied on.
[note 1] The historian Michael Aung-Thwin has argued however that it is a mistake to equate the office with ethnicity, and that colonial scholarship grafted on Shan ethnicity to the so-called Shan brothers without any evidence.