Pagan’s political power waned after the 12 century. Due to the weakness of the central power, the country broke into fragmentary principalities, but incipient dynasties, in spite of periods of unrest, strove to be the patrons and propagators of religion, with very few exemptions. Myanmar’s kings traced their origin back to Buddha’s Sakya dynasty. The Buddhist doctrine of Kamma placed the king in the highest position, as one could only become a ruler after the accumulation of the greatest merit in formatives. The King was belived to be the cakkavattin, a righteous, universal ruler, who rested his rule on the principle of Dhamma, whose duty was to disseminate and support the religion and to protect his people. The king was also believed to be the Bodhisattva, the incarnation of future Buddha.