Burma . ANCIENT REMAINS 31. 66. BITAKA-TAIK, THATON. platform (tamdnthalin). Unlikethe ancient temples with their stairsand corridors, the later zedi is asolid mass of brick and earth,plastered over. The summit isinaccessible, except by means ofscaffolding {nyan, No. 217). Zediare commonly spoken of as PayA,in the same way as are the imagesof the Buddha, for which the dis-tinctive term is sindu. In addition to the zedi, thethein, and kyaung, there are threeother classes of religious edifices,the tasdung, wut, and zaydt. All these may be decorated in the palatial styleand are mostly of wood. Bu
Burma . ANCIENT REMAINS 31. 66. BITAKA-TAIK, THATON. platform (tamdnthalin). Unlikethe ancient temples with their stairsand corridors, the later zedi is asolid mass of brick and earth,plastered over. The summit isinaccessible, except by means ofscaffolding {nyan, No. 217). Zediare commonly spoken of as PayA,in the same way as are the imagesof the Buddha, for which the dis-tinctive term is sindu. In addition to the zedi, thethein, and kyaung, there are threeother classes of religious edifices,the tasdung, wut, and zaydt. All these may be decorated in the palatial styleand are mostly of wood. But a public well or a roadside water-stand, the portalof a bridge or a wharf, may likewise be surmounted by the royal pyatthat invirtue of the religious distinction which attaches to every work dedicated topublic use by private bounty. Nothing adds so much to the picturesqueness ofBurma. The temple zaydt (No. 98) is intended for sojourners in the precincts onduty days. The wut differs from the zaydt in having a dais for imag
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