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| | The Burma Notebooks - Shwe Dagon Pagoda |
 | | We turn to the left because the pagoda should always be on the right, and are surprised that the marble terrace is so wide, that there are so many pagodas, hti models, tagundaings and tazaungs and yet there is room for thousands at festival times. |
 | | This was found on the brink of a precipice 3500 feet high, the hairs were enshrined and the pagoda which was built on the boulder called the “old hermit’s pagoda”. |
 | | On top of each post is a small pagoda, a pagoda hti, or symbols such as Hintha, the sacred goose, Shwehende, the sacred bird of the Peguan dynasty, or Kalawaik, the Burmese crane, and many streamers and flags hanging from circular extensions. |
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