Everything about Thaton totally explained
Thaton is a
town in
Mon State, in southern
Myanmar on the
Tenasserim plains.
History
Thaton was a center for a
Mon kingdom which stretched from the
Ayeyarwady delta region to as far east as
Cambodia. Like the
Burmese and the
Thais, some modern Mons have tried to identify their
ethnicity and, specifically this kingdom at Thaton, with the semi-historical kingdom of
Suwarnabhumi ("The Golden Land"); today, this claim is contested by many different ethnicities in
Southeast Asia, and contradicted by
scholars.
Historical scholarship indicates that the early usage of the term (as found in the edicts of
Ashoka of
India, who sent
Buddhist missionaries there in the 3rd century BC) indicated a location in
southern India, and not in Southeast Asia.
In the kingdom of
Dvaravati, Thaton was an important
seaport on the
Gulf of Martaban, for trade with India and
Sri Lanka.
Shin Aran, also called
Dhammadassi, a
monk born in Thaton and raised and educated in
Nakhorn Pathom, an old
capital of the Mon kingdom of Dvaravadi, now in
Thailand, took
Theravada Buddhism north to the Burmese kingdom of
Bagan. In 1057, King
Anawrahta of Bagan conquered Thaton.
Geography
Silting has resulted in the coastline moving 16 km away from Thaton, which is now a sleepy town on the rail line from
Bago to
Mottama.
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