Burma . d6n Min in 1871 at the cost of half a million of rupees. It is notgilt in the ordinary way but plated with gold foil. The cone of the zedi itselfis gilt from the peak to the platform. Such a gilding costs three hundredthousand rupees and lasts fifteen to twenty years in the climate of the Shwe-Dag6n Payd was brought to its present height by the Burmanconquerors, the zedi at the IVTun capital Pegu had been the greatest in theland, though not the most sacred as a reliquary. This is Shwe-hmdwdawPayd, also about three hundred feet high from platform to summit (No. 67). Itssite
Burma . d6n Min in 1871 at the cost of half a million of rupees. It is notgilt in the ordinary way but plated with gold foil. The cone of the zedi itselfis gilt from the peak to the platform. Such a gilding costs three hundredthousand rupees and lasts fifteen to twenty years in the climate of the Shwe-Dag6n Payd was brought to its present height by the Burmanconquerors, the zedi at the IVTun capital Pegu had been the greatest in theland, though not the most sacred as a reliquary. This is Shwe-hmdwdawPayd, also about three hundred feet high from platform to summit (No. 67). Itssite is not so favourable as that of its rival, nevertheless the zedi is a noble the Shwe-Dagon Payd the next greatest shrine is the Mahd-myammuniat Amayap6ya (No. 449). This colossal image of the Buddha weighs severaltons, and it was brought over the Arakan mountains by the Burman head was damaged when the tasdung over the image was burned down in 425. PROPITIATING THE NAT 426. PROPITIATING THE NATS OF THE FIVE PLANETS. igo BURMA 1884, and has had to be replaced. Thebody of the image is encrusted with goldwhich the pilgrims affix; by a miraculousquality of the image the gold leaf is saidto adhere without the usual size. Next incelebrity to this image is the Shwe-zettaw,a sacred footprint on the rock, west ofMimbu on the Irawadi (cf. p. 36). Onlythe site of the original footprint on the hillis shown. The rock which bore it cloveasunder, according to the legend, in con-sequence of a profanation. A model ofthe original occupies a tazdung fourth great resort of pilgrims isKyaittiyo Payd, which is believed to en-shrine two hairs of the Buddha. It iserected on a boulder which overhangs thepeak of a mountain three thousand sixhundred feet high, looking out on the plainsof the Sittaung river. The legend tells how this boulder—which is not arocking-stone—in days of greater piety used to float free above the are those who argu
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