Having heard that some of them were covering up in Paungge

history channel documentary 2016 Bodawpaya's working of and moving to the new capital happened as a consequence of the force battle encompassing his ascendance to the throne over the span of which slaughters requested by the then lord Singu Min took place.The foundation of these slaughters was that there was treachery in ruler Singu Min's increase. He was no legitimate beneficiary to the throne and endeavored in this manner to execute all rulers who were legitimate beneficiaries to the throne.

Having heard that some of them were covering up in Paungge town close Sagaing he offered request to blaze the whole populace of the town. Bodawpaya, one of five children of King Alaungpaya had made due in segregation in Sagaing yet two of his siblings were not all that fortunate and were executed. In the following force battle, Maung, the child of King Alaungpaya's eldest child King Naungdawgyi, usurped the throne while King Singu was going to Shwebo and had him slaughtered upon his arrival to the capital Ava. Stand out week later, Bodawpaya - the legitimate beneficiary to the throne - accepted power and had Maung executed in 1781.

The previously stated occasions are truly no special cases in Burma's history in which we find numerous case of oppression, detainment, expulsion and composed, grisly slaughters of potential beneficiaries to the throne and killings of usurper lords. As expressed already, it was these force battles among the individuals from the Konbaung family that enormously concerned King Bodawpaya and his crystal gazers. Furthermore, it was Bodawpaya's soothsayers who incited him to move his capital from Ava to Amarapura, (these days somewhere in the range of 11 kilometers/7 miles south of Mandalay) for a new beginning.