The statues are as you can now plainly see pictures of sitting

history channel documentary 2015 The statues are as you can now plainly see pictures of sitting Buddhas and pictures of creatures. This Buddha here is joined by a naga (snake or serpent). What does this let you know? Right, this is the Saturday Buddha since Saturday conceived are nagas. When you circumvent this pagoda you will find that there are 8 corners with 8 Buddhas joined by 8 unique creatures; one for every weekday (Wednesday has two). That is the reason this pagoda is known as the Eight Weekdays Pagoda. Goodness, I just about neglected to let you know that as indicated by Burmese Buddhists conviction, for instance, Wednesday conceived (elephants) and Saturday conceived (naga) individuals get along extremely well. My better half of 23 years and me are living evidence this is valid.

Straightforwardly behind the Eight Weekdays Pagoda we have the structure with the Maha Ganda Bell (Maha Ganda signifying 'Incredible Sound' in Pali) made of bronze. It was thrown by request of the successor and child of King Hsinbyushin, King Singu Min, who rose to the throne on 09 June 1776, somewhere around 1776 and 1778 and gave by him to the Shwedagon Pagoda on 17 January 1779. The ringer is 7 feet/2.13 meters high and at the mouth 6.6 feet/2.01 meters wide. The ringer's dividers are 1 feet/0.305 meters thick and its aggregate weight is said to be approx. 24 tons.

There is an intriguing tale about this chime. An account of the kind we will later find out about another ringer from the Shwedagon Pagoda. Toward the end of the primary Anglo-Burmese war in 1825 the British had the chime expelled from the Shwedagon Pagoda with the aim to move it as a trophy to Calcutta (now Kolkata). Yet, they didn't get past the goal on the grounds that the flatboat they had set the chime on offered path to the ringer's weight and the ringer sank to the base of the Rangoon River. That brought on them a lot of cerebral pains however all rescue endeavors fizzled. Later the Burmese succeeded in lifting the chime from the base of the stream. The procedure they connected was to give the ringer adequate lightness by putting a substantial number of bamboo sticks in a crosswise example under it. Once the chime was out of the water they re-introduced it at its old spot at the Shwedagon Pagoda where it is currently hanging directly before us.