 Later, Pyusawti became the King of the region.During his reign, he built pagodas at each of the places where he had destroyed the 'Menaces'.The Pagoda is built on the edge of the Irrawaddy River (it is Myanmar's largest commercial waterway), within the walled city of Pagan (a large capital city of the Burmese Kingdom between the 11th and the 13th centuries), over a series of crenellated terraces.