History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c33.s3.26

v2.c33.s3.26

The next in importance, so far as we know, is the more generally known Shwe-Dagôn pagoda at Rangoon (Plate XXXVII.), a building very similar in dimensions to the last named, and by no means unlike it, except that the outline of the base is cut up to even a greater extent, and the spire more attenuated—both signs of a comparatively modern date.