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Shwedagon Pagoda - YangonSrikshetra lies amid these fields and villages, about 500 metres from the Hwa Za Archaeological Museum which houses artifacts dug up from the old Pyu site. The displays include stone reliefs of Buddha and a Bodhisattva stone pedestal.There are also Pyu terracotta votive tablets and a stone funeral urn that was believed to have contained King Sihavikrama's ashes. Excavations at Srikshetra since 1907 have unearthed a wealth of sculptures, some of which have been preserved at the on-site Hwa Za Museum in the village of the same name, and others at the National Museum in Yangon. Some of the sculptures on exhibit point to the existence of Mahayana Buddhism and Brahmanism at the time of Srikshetra's heyday. The actual walls can be seen if you part the thick layer of undergrowth that now covers them.Still looking remarkably solid after all these years, the bricks bear inscription of Pyu alphabets and numerals. There are also some honeycomb- like tiles which archaeologists have identified as dating from the Pyu period.


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