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Sri Ksetra, also called Thayekhittaya, is an early Pyu city in central Myanmar near the modern town of Pyay, occupied between approximately the 5th and 9th centuries CE. The city was the largest of the Pyu city-states and one of the principal Buddhist political centers of mainland Southeast Asia in the first millennium. The walled city covers approximately 18 square kilometres within a circular brick rampart 13 kilometres in circumference, the largest enclosed pre-modern city plan in Southeast Asia. The principal monuments are the Bawbawgyi pagoda — a tall cylindrical brick stupa 46 metres high, considered a prototype for later Burmese stupa architecture — and the Bebe and Lemyethna temples, square brick chambers with vaulted interiors holding seated Buddha images. The Pyu inscriptions of Sri Ksetra include the Myazedi inscription, the Pyu Rosetta Stone that allowed decipherment of the Pyu script. UNESCO inscribed Sri Ksetra and two other Pyu cities as World Heritage in 2014.
Bawbawgyi still rises intact from the agricultural plain.