Considered as the king of Heaven,[5] he is the Burmese adaptation of the Hindu deities Indra.

[10] Thagyamin is often portrayed as holding a conch shell in one hand, and a yak-tail fly-whisk in the other, and seated or standing atop a three-headed white elephant (Airavata).

He was designated as the supreme deity of the official pantheon of 37 ahtet nat (အထက်နတ်, upper deities) by King Anawrahta in the 11th century, in an effort to streamline animist and Hindu practices among the populace and merge these practices with Theravada Buddhism.

There, he observes every person: he records the names of good people in a golden book, and writes the names of evildoers in a book made of dog-skin leather.

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