Mon people
Notwithstanding his complex duties of his high office, Binnya Dala also wrote many literary works, the most well known and significant of which is the chronicle "Razadarit Ayedawbon." He translated the first half of "Hanthawaddy Chronicle" from Mon to Burmese. His Burmese translation is the earliest "extant" text regarding the history of the Mon people in Lower Burma. (The original Mon chronicle is believed to have been lost in 1565 when all of Pegu was burned down. Indeed, for nearly four centuries until Nai Pan Hla translated the Burmese version back to Mon in 1958, the oldest chronicle about the Mon people existed only in Burmese. The second half of the original chronicle remains lost.)