President Thein Sein has become the first of Myanmar's leaders to visit the tomb of his country's last king, who was exiled to India more than a century ago.
The president on Saturday paid homage at the run-down tomb of King Thibaw in the western Indian coastal city of Ratnagiri and met the late monarch's descendants.
"The meeting was marked by emotion," a local official told the Press Trust of India news agency, adding the president also invited the king's descendants to visit Myanmar during the two-hour visit.
The Myanmar leader travelled by helicopter to Ratnagiri from Mumbai, which lies about 330 kilometres away.
Thibaw's reign ended in 1885 with his defeat by British colonial forces, who sent him and his family into exile in Ratnagiri, where he died.
A Myanmese official said that the president was the first leader to visit Thibaw's grave.
Thibaw's defeat in the third Anglo-Burmese war marked the end of centuries of royal rule, and the country - also known as Burma - remained part of the British empire until 1948.
