Stela from Hpayahtaung Pagoda

Version: (45672e8), last modified (d59616c).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [1 s](i)ddhaM 2 hmiṁ taR mi() pu thṅa haMḥ (paṄ) O roḥ (mgaṃ) [*]Cḥ gaYṁḥ mvaYṃ tiṁ priṄḥ sa[] mhuRḥ ha

⟨2⟩ O mra piTṁ taR ḅiNṁḥ taK ṭro(M)ḥ ta ḅi(N)ṁḥ roM dre _ (t)aR ya()(t)yaṄḥ k()o(Y) (si)R[] kaT[] msauṄ (ḅa) tniNḥ tdeRṃḥ ciK tiNṁ mu tiNṁ gaMṃḥ nuN (g)aM()

⟨3⟩ tiṁ pd(l)auT ḅa tmiT tṅaT _ @

Commentary

2. Note parallelism with PYU 32, l. 7: <taR ḅiNḥṁ roM>.

2. Note parallelism with PYU 20, l. 1: <yaṄḥ tyaṄḥ ktoY siRṁ k/ñaTṁ msoṄ>.

2. Note parallelism with PYU 27, l. 1: <tiNṁ mu tiNṁ gaMṃḥ>.

3. <tṅaT>: the second consonant in the onset at first sight looks like <dha>. If this were correct, then one might compare the last akṣara of PYU 17. But reading <tṅa> seems more likely.

3. _ indicates a large gap before final punctuation. See a similarly large gap in PYU 27.7.

Bibliography

A eye drawing and a Burmese transliteration appears in Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, pp. 35–6. Re-edited here from our team’s RTIs.

Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake and Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item DHARMA_INSPYU00019.