He was elder brother of Inwa Min Gaung, King of Inwa, owner of so-called white elephant Traphya Min (762-763). While he was game hunting in the forest at Aung Pinlei, he found a zawgyi (a sort of superman) there, who, before leaving shared him a beautiful female deva made of his mystic mantra by the Zawgyi. Sometime after the beautiful deva disappeared again, and he had gone mad. Thus while suffering from severe mental disorder he was assassinated by his follower Nga Nauk San, thereby instantly becoming a Nat.