Uyittaw Dhat Sutaungpyi Sedidaw
It was a main historic pagoda built in Sakarit 222 with enshrinement of Uyittaw Dhat of Lord
Buddha by Thuriya Sekka, the King of Rakhine, by the oracle of Lord Buddha Himself, atop Thela
Pihti Pabada Hill in Ponnagyun Township. It has been revered by successive kings of Rakhine.
Min Phalaung, the king of Rakhine, went on a western expedition and was successful by
virtue of an oath at the pagoda and so he rebuilt the pagoda in Sakarit 953 (AD 1591). While at it he
saw realization of the oaths he made at the pagoda (1) for the Uyittaw Dhat of the pagoda to radiate
six kinds of light (2) for the ocean waters not to touch the original shores during the time of the
donation and (3) for drinking water to come out at Thela Pihti Pabada Mount that was fully rocky.
The drinking water well is still there to this day.
It is 153 feet high and 401 feet in girth. It has eight compartments of enshrinement-relics of
Kakusana in the east, those of Konagana in the south those of Kassapa in the west and those of
Gautama in the north, namely gold replicas of the four Buddhas.
