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206 food when called and are decorated with gold leaf by visitors at the pagoda festival. In Sagaing is the celebrated Kaunghmudaw, built by Thalun Mintayagyi, King of Ava, in 1636. Two others date from the 10th century. In Kyauksè, Asoka built at least one and Anawrata many pagodas which still exist; and here is Shwemôktaw, built



by a king more than two thousand years ago. Meiktila has two pagodas of Anawrata and of Narapatisithu. An interesting shrine in Myingyan is Kyauk-ku, the rock-cave pagoda, under and near which are caves where hermits dwell. Shwegu near Bhamo, "is a perfect forest of Pagodas ."