ogress living on the mountain) fell in love with each other and begot two sons, known as the Shwepyin brothers. When they grew up, they served the king in his mission to make an effort to bring the eyetooth of the Buddha, residing in Gandhala (Gandhalarit), China. On the return journey of the king and his army, the king's elephant stopped and knelt down at a certain place in Taungbyon village, where the king had a pagoda built and named it 'Sutaungpyae'. The king ordered all his men to contribute their personal service towards the construction, at the very least, each for a work of bringing and laying a brick in the pagoda. The Pagoda was completed and the king came to conduct a visual check but found out a small empty space of two-brick size in the pagoda. When asked, the king's men told him that the Shwepyin brothers did not do anything to help build the pagoda and played a game of marbles instead. As a punishment, Anawrahta ordered that the two brothers be beaten with a small cane, but actually beaten to death with a large and thick bamboo pole (Wayindote - ). As they inherited extraordinary power from their father, the beats did come to no harm to them. At last, they had to die of being had their testicles crushed. However the Glass Palace Chronicle told simply of their death as "he put to death at Wayindot the Shwehpyin brothers, for he trusted them not." All of a sudden after their doomed-to-death, they became evil spirits, stopped the royal raft of the king on his return journey to Pagan and put in an appearance before the king, whom they requested to give them a site to live as fief. Then the king had a spirit-palace or nat-shrine built near the pagoda in the village of Taungbyon and enfeoffed them fields around the site. An annual festival has since been held to celebrate them. Festival programs or ritual setting Three commemorative events are held in honour of the spirits of the Taungbyon brothers annually : their departure for the war in December, their return in March and their disappearance in August, of which the last is of importance and draws tens of thousands of people, including a number of spirit mediums or natkadaws (), to participate in it as hereditary obligations or propitiation or for jolly