DatarrX/my-eras-taungoo

Eras of Myanmar Literature: Taungoo Era (တောင်ငူခေတ် စာပေ)

Welcome to the Taungoo Era (တောင်ငူခေတ်) corpus—the fourth chronological volume of the Eras of Myanmar Literature collection.

This open-access linguistic and literary dataset is meticulously curated and released by the DatarrX Foundation, dedicated to bridging the low-resource language gap for Burmese and regional ethnic languages in modern Artificial Intelligence.

This release contains the currently available collection of curated records. The dataset is not yet a final or exhaustive collection, and additional literary works and historical texts are planned for future updates. The existing records have been curated and analyzed, with an emphasis on maintaining data quality and historical relevance.

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About DatarrX

Founded on December 12, 2025, DatarrX is a non-profit, open-source foundation built to solve a critical divide: while Myanmar possesses a profound literary heritage spanning millennia, Burmese and regional ethnic languages remain dangerously underrepresented in modern language models and AI systems.

Under our guiding doctrine, "Defining the Unknown through Rigorous Data Research," we systematically engineer clean, machine-ready corpora so that native AI tools can be developed and utilized by anyone, completely free.

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The Lyrical Zenith of Taungoo Literature

Spanning from 1510 to 1752 CE, the Taungoo Dynasty was an era of unprecedented military expansion and imperial grandeur, which in turn catalyzed a golden age of exquisite courtly poetry.

In the history of Myanmar literature, the Taungoo Era represents the mastery of lyrical emotion and courtly verse:

• The Reign of Yadu (ရတု): Master poets and royalty—most notably Natshinnakung (Prince Nat Shin Naung) and Pyi Nawadegyī—elevated the classical Yadu verse form to its absolute peak, expressing intense romantic longing, royal duty, and majestic natural scenery with unmatched metrical precision.
• The Brilliance of Shin Daw We (ရဝေရှင်ထွေး): The era also immortalized legendary court figures like Shin Daw We, whose celebrated collection of Anchīn (အန်ချင်း) songs forms a vital cornerstone of traditional Myanmar vocal literature and folk-court synthesis.
• Print Orthography Standardization: Preserved through traditional palm-leaf manuscripts (Pe-sa) and standardized during 20th-century print compilations, this corpus is fully tagged under standard print orthography (orthography: "modernized").

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Corpus Overview & Statistical Breakdown

This dataset compiles 98 verified classical works (totaling 504 lines and ~36K characters) across 4 traditional genres, with 100% attributed authorship and 100% genre classification.

Literary Genre Distribution

Genre (စာပေအမျိုးအစား)	Count (ပုဒ်ရေ)	Percentage (%)
Anchīn (အန်ချင်း)	83	84.7%
Yadu (ရတု)	13	13.3%
Egyin (ဧချင်း)	1	1.0%
Laygyo (လေးချိုး)	1	1.0%
Total	98	100.0%

Prolific Authors in the Corpus

Author (စာဆိုရှင်)	Number of Works (လက်ရာအရေအတွက်)
Shin Daw We (ရဝေရှင်ထွေး)	86
Pyi Nawadegyī (ပြည် နဝဒေးကြီး)	9
Natshinnakung (နတ်သျှင်နောင်)	2
Pa-thu-nge-sa Shin Myat Khaung (ပယ်သူငယ်စား ရှင်မြတ်ခေါင်)	1

Data Schema

Each record in data/train.jsonl is formatted in a clean, standardized JSON structure:

Field	Type	Description
name	string	စာမူခေါင်းစဉ် (Title of the literary work)
author	string	စာဆိုရှင် (Attributed poet or author — 100% coverage)
genre	string	စာပေအမျိုးအစား (Literary genre — 100% coverage)
orthography	string	စာလုံးပေါင်းသတ်ပုံစနစ် (modernized)
text	string	စာမူစာသား (Verified text with original stanza and line breaks)

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The Eras of Myanmar Literature Series

The Eras of Myanmar Literature initiative seeks to systematically collect, preserve, and digitize the textual heritage of Myanmar across its major historical epochs:

1. Bagan Era (ပုဂံခေတ်) — DatarrX/my-era-bagan
2. Pinya Era (ပင်းယခေတ်) — DatarrX/my-era-pinya
3. Inwa Era (အင်းဝခေတ်) — DatarrX/my-era-inwa
4. Taungoo Era (တောင်ငူခေတ်) — [This Dataset]
5. Nyaungyan Era (ညောင်ရမ်းခေတ်) — DatarrX/my-era-nyaungyan
6. Konbaung Era (ကုန်းဘောင်ခေတ်) — DatarrX/my-era-konbaung

By converting fragile, scattered historical literature into standard JSONL datasets, DatarrX aims to bridge classical humanities scholarship with computational linguistics, natural language processing, and open AI research.

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Attribution & License

Curated and released by Khant Sint Heinn (Kalix Louis) under the DatarrX Foundation.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share, adapt, and build upon this dataset for academic, historical, or technical purposes, provided appropriate attribution is given to the DatarrX Foundation.