# Stela from Nagayon Lake, Halin

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00017

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00017.xml

Language: Pyu [Script (unspecified)]

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ 1 siddha ∥ ro jo nu tu ⟨2⟩ knu O nḅuḥ kṣatri tdaṃḥ ḅaṁḥ viṃṁ⟨3⟩khno
sriṁ kda O pki mahadeṃ⟨4⟩vi sri jatra ṅiṁ kda saḥ O ḅiṁḥ ⟨5⟩ kyaṃḥ nu
[1×]ṁḥ svaḥ pto tgaṃḥ yaṁ tgaṃḥ ⟨6⟩ lo ḅa kiṁ O ḅiṁ kliṁḥ O plaṁḥ pa
sa⟨7⟩gha t(l)i kca diṃṁ [1×] paṁḥ O pa vu ⟨8⟩ ḅuḥ buḥ mvuḥ tvaṃ ∥@

## Commentary

<viṃṁkhno> may represent the Sanskrit name Viṣṇu complementing <jatra>
in the next line which may be from Candrā. However, <khno> could also be
the same word as <knoṄ> in PYU 1, l. 1, or even <kno> in <kno> in PYU
20, l. 3, if the aspiration of <k> is not phonemic (as in Khmer in which
/kn/ is phonetically [kʰn]).

<ṅiṁ kda> appears to match <ṅiTṁ kdaṄ> in PYU 16, PYU 20, PYU 27 and PYU
32

## Bibliography

First reported in No name N.d., pp. 1929–30: 152, 182, where it was
reported found near 001, with 8 lines of Pyu. Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963,
p. 22 is an eye drawing and transliteration based on the ASI photograph.
Luce 1985, pp. I, 66, 75 n. 28, 149, provides an overview of earlier
work and notes the name of a queen, <mahadevi sri jatra>, in lines 3-4.
Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, pp. 18–21 gives eye drawings, a new reading
and a glossary. Re-edited here from published photographs and from our
team’s RTIs.

### Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus
of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item
DHARMA_INSPYU00017.