King Kyansittha and Mon inscriptions in Pagan

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G.H. Luce theorized that in 1084 Nga Ramankn, the Mon governor of Pegu, marched

north with a strong army and fought against
the Burmese king Saw Lu at Pyidawthakyun.
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Saw Lu was killed, and the Mons advanced

farther north to capture the Burmese capital. At
the height of the crisis Kyansittha, a Burmese
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family at Mt. Popa who were organizing a re
bellion on their own, and promised those Mons
that if they would help him he would give the
hand of his only daughter princess Treylo kaclmanidev to the Mon prince Nkasamn.
So those Mons joined forces with Kyansittha
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and drove out Nga Ramankns army, and
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Kyansittha became king of Pagan.
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He built all his temples in Pagan in the Mon
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style such as the Nagayon, the Abeyadana,
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the Ananda, and others. He engraved more
than a dozen big stones in Mon, never in his
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own Burmese language. Maybe Burmese did
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not have a writing system in his time. In the

Shwezigon inscriptions described that the godking Indra comes down from his abode in

heaven and approaches the hermit-god Vishnu

to invite him to be reborn as king Kyansittha at
Pagan.
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Collected by Bee Htaw Monzel