Sanda Thudhamma


Sanda Thudamma or Shrichandra Sudhormo was a Burmese-Bengali king of the Mrauk U Kingdom. Widely recognised as a major controversial figure among Muslims in South Asia, several historians and authors described him as an immoral ruler and womanizer. His atrocities include the betrayal the Mughal prince and Governor of Bengal Subah, Shah Shuja, murder of his three sons, rape and forced suicide of his daughter Banu Begum, who was Islamically married to one of Emperor Aurangzeb's son, and imprisonment of the pregnant daughter of King Narapdigyi who was starved to death.
The famous Bengali poet Syed Alaol was the poet in his court. He translated Tohfa at the request of Shrichondro Sudhormo or Sanda Thudhamma.
Prince Magan Thakur was the foster-son of the sister of King Shrichondro Sudhormo. Saiyad Muhammad Musa was the army chief of King Shrichondro Sudhormo.
In 1664, emperor Aurangzeb appointed Shaista Khan of Bengal to capture Sanda Thudamma. Shaista Khan eliminated Portuguese and Arakanese pirates from the region, and in 1666 recaptured the port of Chittagong from the Arakanese king, Sanda Thudhamma. Chittagong remained a key port throughout Mughal rule.