Talk:Mandalay

message: *I was looking for Mandalay (band) and had to search myself because there was no (disambiguation) page. Perhaps that should be created? 31.182.146.117 (talk) 21:23, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Mandalay disambiguation

message: *If Kuthodaw Pagoda and Mahamuni Buddha have seperate articles so should Mandalay Hill. Wagaung 21:18, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging Mandalay and Mandalay Hill

message: Mandalay Hill was there before Mandalay.  They each have their own histories.Wikimattmccoy 01:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  My kingdom for a horse, but nothing for a merge. 

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message: We need a little more rigor here.
* The general definition of Mandala in Pali and Sanskrit is "circle" -- not "flat plains" as stated.
* I can't find anything on "Mandare". The closest thing is Mount Mandara after which Mandalay Hills could be named. That's Henry Yule's hunch anyway. But I can't find anything on Mandare meaning "auspicious land" other than at the Mandalay city site.
Does any one have other sources to verify? Thanks,
Hybernator (talk) 04:05, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Mandalay comes from Mingalay meaning 'young/younger lord' according to local history. It harks back to Bagan era as Mingalay is taken as Shwe Hpyin Nge, the younger of the Taungbyone brother Nats. Nearby is Thakinma (Mi'lady) Hill aka Me U (name of the girl who rejected him) Hill, linked to the same legend. I'll try and find a reference but not hopeful; it's unlikely to be in English. Wagaung (talk) 07:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Judging by how it's spelled in Burmese--i.e. stacked "na" and "ta" (န္တ)--it's likely a foreign derivative, and most likely a Pali one. (As far as I know, no native Burmese (Tibeto-Burman) words are spelled with stacked alphabets.) But whatever you can find on its origins would be helpful. What we have right now with Mandala and Mandare (which I don't even think is a Pali word) seems pure conjecture.Hybernator (talk) 04:17, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree, piggyback spelling as a rule is used only for Pali words or foreign terms such as England and India, although there are exceptions such as the towns Meiktila or Theinni, and alternative spellings of thamee (daughter), leimma (good/smart) and kyamma (healthy). Mandala is quite plausible if the derivation is from Pali, but you'll find a reference to mandare as mandayè here - George W Bird's account included in the article's references : Wanderings in Burma (1897), p269. Wagaung (talk) 21:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much. If Mandaye means "to bear good reputation or character" as the books says, then, it can't be of Burmese origin. Or at least I can't make it out. So there are three possible sources: Mandala, Mandare/Mandaye or (Yule's guess: Mandara). I didn't know Meiktila was a native Burmese name. It doesn't register as native Burmese to me. What does it mean? (I know it's not "Friends Lottery Come"!) Anyway, thanks for the research.Hybernator (talk) 02:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So far as I know Meiktila is named after the lake, and it may well be foreign as there was a kingdom called Mitila in northern India in the Buddha's time. He is, as you know, also said to have visited Mandalay Hill and prophesied the birth of the city at its foot. And Theinni is Shan Hsenwi.  Frankly I've never heard of Mandala and Mandare and just grew up with the Mingalay legend. Minshin Saw, son of Alaungsithu banished from Bagan, built the Aungpinle Lake (eastern edge of the city) and Shwe Kyeemyin Pagoda (inside town next to a Catholic convent). So these actually predate Mandalay by about seven centuries. Wagaung (talk) 12:36, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology of Mandalay

message: I added a section on health care, which needs to be beefed up. In fact, all other sections need beefing up:
* Economy: Very weak
* Cityscape: Reads like a travel agency's log
* History: Too much info about the foundation but little else about recent history
* Education: the number of primary/secondary schools and students needed
I'll try to add/update as much as I can. But what I can do is limited as my knowledge of Mandalay is based on my few visits there. For example, I want to rewrite Cityscape but I can't get hold of any references on the city's structure or architecture. (I suspect most don't have access to any documentation either.)Hybernator (talk) 00:07, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sections to improve--need help

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message: Do you know or find anything to expand the article on the Trams in Mandalay? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 06:33, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trams in Mandalay 

message: Islam in mayamar is forbidden  and the government torture every muslim there and some priests would to eat their meat! Akremi yassin (talk) 21:01, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
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