# Earthenware Urn from Payagyi Pagoda

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake, Julian Karl
Wheatley

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00002

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00002.xml

Language: Pyu [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-09 14:27 (899538b), last modified 2026-09-09 14:27
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ḅaṁḥ va ḅaṁḥ rmaḥ tḅaḥ saṁḥ to tḅaṁḥ ta ḅa hi

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ rmaḥ • Sastri (ASB 1915, 22) also recognizes the possibility of a
prescript <r>. Luce (PPPB I, 75 n.) reads <meḥ>, firming up Blagden’s
<m(e)ḥ> (ASB 1915, 21). — ⟨1⟩ ḅaṁḥ ⬦ baṁḥ ASB1915. — ⟨1⟩ ḅaṁḥ ⬦ baṁḥ
ASB1915. — ⟨1⟩ rmaḥ ⬦ rmaḥ ASB1915; m(e)ḥ ASB1915; meḥ Luce 1985. — ⟨1⟩
tḅaḥ ⬦ tbaḥ ASB1915. — ⟨1⟩ tḅaṁḥ ⬦ t(b)aḥ ASB1915. — ⟨1⟩ ḅa ⬦ ba
ASB1915.

## Commentary

ASB 1915, § 54, p. 21: “Hmawza E” = “the smallest of the Pyu funeral
urns as published in Report for 1913”, reading <baṁ: wa baṁ: m(e): tba:
saṁ: to t(b)a: ta (ba) hi>

The words <tḅaḥ>, <tḅaṁḥ> and <ḅaṁḥ> give the impression of possibly
being morphologically connected.

The words <ḅa hi> also figure in PYU 1.

## Bibliography

Reported in ASB, which includes a reading of the opening akṣaras.
Blagden 1913–1914, p. 127 (E) takes note of this urn, but focuses his
study on the four (PYU 3, 4, 5 and 6) that share reference to the
Vikrama kings. ASB provides complete readings and notes by Blagden and
Sastri; in most respects, Sastri is not as compatible with our readings
as Blagden. Luce, in Luce 1985, pp. I, 65, 75 n. 24, 127, provides an
overview and offers a modified reading. Re-edited here from published
photographs.

### Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus
of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item
DHARMA_INSPYU00002.