Mranma Pran: When context encounters notion

@article{AungThwin2008MranmaPW,
  title={Mranma Pran: When context encounters notion},
  author={Michael A. Aung-Thwin},
  journal={Journal of Southeast Asian Studies},
  year={2008},
  volume={39},
  pages={193 - 217},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154992861}
}
Abstract The geo-political and cultural-historical context, more than any other single factor, has shaped the notion of Mranma Pran in pre-colonial times. It is derived from a longstanding reality embodied in the term anya (‘upstream’), representing Upper Burma (hence, the term anyatha, ‘offspring of Upper Burma’). Although Lower Burma also has an equivalent in the term akriy (‘downstream’), it was Upper Burma more than any other region in the country that initially exemplified the term Mranma… 
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