Editing Thaton (section)

==Etymology==
Thaton is the Burmese name of '''Sathuim''' (သဓီု) in [[Mon language|Mon]], which in turn is from '''Sudhammapura''' ({{lang|my|သုဓမ္မပူရ}}) in [[Pali language|Pali]], after Sudharma, the [[moot hall]] of the gods.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shorto|first=H.L.|authorlink=:en:Harry Leonard Shorto|year=2002|chapter=The 32 ''myos'' in the medieval Mon Kingdom|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_mtxM6KAYvMC&q=Sadhuim&pg=PA204|editor=Vladimir Braginsky |title=Classical Civilisations of South East Asia: An Anthology of Articles Published in ''The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies''|page=204|location=London and New York| publisher=Routledge|isbn=0-7007-1410-3}}</ref> This name has Buddhist symbolism: according to the 4th-century ''[[Buddhavaṃsa]]'', this was the name of the city where the [[Śobhita Buddha]] was born, as well as the name of his father, and "Sudhammavati" was also the name of the city where the [[Sujāta Buddha]] "held his first assembly of monks".<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 79 --> The name of Thaton probably originated as the formal Pali name "Sudhamma", which then became vernacular Mon form "Sadhuim", which is in turn pronounced "Thaton" in Burmese.<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 80 --><ref name="Aung-Thwin 2005"/>{{rp|79-80}}