THE SHWE THA LYATUNG IMAGE

Lying exposed to sun and rain for hundreds of years, the image was ravaged by weather and came to be covered with earth and vegetation till at last it came to assume the form of a wooded hilock, when lower Myanmar was annexed.
Its discovery came quite accidentally with the extension of Railways to Bago. An Indian Contractor for the supply of bricks and earth began digging it for earth, when with the appearance of bricks instead, there arose a storm of protests from those who were conversant with the history of image. The work of the contractor was called to a halt and the reconstruction of the holy image was at once taken in hand and by 1881 once neglected decaying image was restored to its original glory and splendour.

DIMENSION

1.	Length	180 ft 54.88 meters
2.	Height	52½ ft 16 meters
3.	Face	22½ ft 6.86 meters
4.	Ear	15 ft 4.57 meters
5.	Eye	3¾ ft 1.14 meters
6.	Eye Brow	7½ ft 2.29 meters
7.	Eye Lid	7½ ft 2.29 meters
8.	Nose	7½ ft 2.29 meters
9.	Lip	7½ ft 2.29 meters
10.	Neck	7½ ft 2.29 meters
11.	Shouder to waist	47½ ft 14.48 meters
12.	Waist to knee	47½ ft 14.48 meters
13.	Knee to foot	47½ ft 14.48 meters
14.	Elbow to tip of Finger	45 ft 13.71 meters
15.	Little finger	10 ft 3.05 meters
16.	Sole of foot	25½ ft 7.77 meters
17.	Great toe 6 ft	1.83 meters
18.	Palm of Hand	22 ft 6.71 meters

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1881.A.D	Reconstruction of the holy image
1903.A.D	Consttruction of main building.
1909.A.D	Iron railing in front of the image.
1932.A.D	Laying of Italian marble slabs.
1937.A.D	Forehead and Foot prints are onamented
1938.A.D	Great pillows are decorated with mosacic work. Construction of ceiling above the image.
1955.A.D	GI. Pipe railing around the entire platform. GI. Pipe railing around the entire platform.
1959.A.D	Extension of iron building on the northen side.

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