Here is the legend that clarifies why this is so.

history channel documentary science Here is the legend that clarifies why this is so. As indicated by this legend Shin Itzagawna lived in Pagan and was minister as well as a chemist. He was fixated on the thought to discover the Philosopher's Stone or 'dat solitary' as the Burmese call it. This is a mystical stone in view of iron or mercury, which he accepted could, among others, transform all that it touched into gold. Itzagawna had along these lines guaranteed to locate the stone (all the more decisively expressed to make the stone by blending the right fixings) and present it to his lord. The legend does not determine at whatever time at which this happened for which reason it can't be said which lord this could have been. Be that as it may, from the way that Shin Itzagawna was a Mon friar it may be right to assume that this legend comes from a period subsequent to ruler Anawrahta had vanquished Thaton, the capital of Mon lord Manuha's kingdom in 1057. In any case, Shin Itzagawna tested for quite a while to figure out how to make this current Philosopher's Stone by blending diverse fixings yet dependably fizzled.

Profoundly disillusioned and embarrassed he tossed the stone of his last test, that had again fizzled, into a cesspit and jabbed instantly a while later his eyes out. Directly after he did this he heard his tenderfoot yell that the stone he had tossed into the cesspit had transformed into the rationalist's stone when it hit the wastewater. Presently plainly the missing fixing Itzagawna had futile been searching for was compost or dung. The tenderfoot gave the Philosopher's Stone to Shin Itzagawna who quickly requested him to raced to the adjacent butcher house and get him a couple of new eyes. The learner returned rapidly yet had become stand out pinpoint center and one goat's eye. Since time was of the embodiment Itzagawna did wouldn't fret, put the eyes into his eye attachments and with the force of the Philosopher's Stone recovered his vision. This is the clarification for the distinctive size of his eyes. The Shin Itzagawna Shrine is one of the nine miracles of the Shwedagon Pagoda.