# Stela found at Amarapura

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00012

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00012.xml

Language: Pyu [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […][2+] [1+]N [1+][1+]R (ḅi)N(ṁḥ) (r)o ta ṭaḥ _ t(d)a(Vṃ)ḥ ma ḅa
mrau tmaḥ [1×] (O) saḥ _ tdaVṃḥ ta (ga)Ṅ kgaṃḥ toL ṅaV pr̥ kuL toY tkiRṁḥ
kliṁḥ [2×] taR daVṃḥ _ tda[V]ṃḥ tvaTṃ (t)[i]Nṁ droḥ [1×]P [1×]M toYṁ
tkiRṁḥ ⟨2⟩ [5×] (t)da(V)ṃ kṭlo[T] tdaVṃḥ tda[V]ṃ[ḥ] ta [4×] saḥ
[1+][1+](V) [1+]M gaṃ toL [1+]C pr̥ ku[L] [toY] nk(iR)ṁḥ _ tda(V)ṃḥ li
mrau kaK taN gaMṃḥ toL ṅaV toYṁ tkiRṁḥ O saḥ _ tdaVṃḥ OṄ dlaV tiMṁ goṃḥ
toL ṅaV s(m)a toYṁ tkiR(ṁḥ) ⟨3⟩ [10×] huT [4×] yaṁ daVḥ taR (ḅ)iNṁḥ
ro(M) ñaḥ kaK ḅaḥ ta saN pva(ṃ) _ ma (ña/ro)ḥ ta(R) (ḅ)iN[ṁḥ] saN pvaṃ _
viṃṁ taR (tkiRṁḥ) ma taM ḅiṁ pvaṃ _ g(o)ṃḥ ta hnaM taM ḅiṁ tiṁ phi _ taP
biṁ piKṁ tboCḥ ta hna[M] mra ḅiṁḥ [1×]

## Commentary

The shape of presumptive <ḅ> is noteworthy: it is in most cases a dot in
a square, resembling the shape of <ḅ> in Old Mon.

## Bibliography

ASB reports the inscription in Bodawpaya’s Amarapura collection and
relates correspondence with Blagden. Mention is also made in ASB. It is
also included as #5 in the list of known Pyu inscriptions in Blagden
1913–1914, p. 127 (5). Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, pp. 127–30 provides the
only transliteration (in Burmese script).

### Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus
of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item
DHARMA_INSPYU00012.