Panday pira biography of williams

When you go through a busy road in Tondo, you will notice the street name “Panday Pira.” Many are asking why is it named like that and some are wondering who is Panday Pira.

To give us a history, Panday Pira is a Muslim blacksmith.

His name is translated as “Blacksmith Pira,” because panday is a Tagalog word for “blacksmith.” He is also a well-known cannon maker which no one in the Philippines at that time can match. Panday Pira was born in in one of the southern islands in the Philippines, probably in Mindanao.

At young age, he settled in Manila and started to establish a cannon-forging shop in the banks of Pasig River. During that time, the Pasig River area was under the control of Rajah Sulayman. He ordered Panday Pira to create several cannons to serve as a protection to his kingdom’s vicinity along the Pasig River delta.

When Miguel Lopez de Legazpi attacked Manila, they are being bombarded by Panday Pira’s cannon for the de