Tondaw Menhir Inscription
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⟨1⟩ 1 siddhaM 2 ∥ [***]
⟨2⟩ mi diṃṁ kiLṁ kiṄṁ _ miṄḥ li
⟨3⟩ […] sba O praC diC dviC [***] hya
⟨4⟩ […] ti juṄṁḥ tyaṄ si kaT [**] O ḅiṁḥ miRṁḥ ḅaḥ ti saṁḥ _ taR roM sba ti kha mūM
⟨5⟩ […] priḥ ḅa […] Ciṁ ba [*****]T [*] mi taM saT hvaM [*] skuY taM ḅiṁ pdaṃ _ gaṃḥ tiṁ hnaM taM ḅiṁ tiRṁ miR tiRṁ li tiM ṅaY tiCṁ [***] pi
⟨6⟩ […] tḅiṁḥ taM ḅiṁ pciK […] ḅi piR [*]C tseT ∥@
Bibliography
Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963, p. 78 reproduces an eye copy of one face of the inscription, reported to have been sent with a letter dated 29 Oct. 1894 from A. R. Bricks, Officiating Commissioner, Arakan Division, to Dr. D. E. Hultzsch, Government Epigraphist, Madras; no transliteration is provided. Luce 1985, pp. I, 50, 57 n. 22, 150, summarizes earlier information and sources. Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, pp. 189–93 transliterates part of the inscription (in Burmese script). We provide a new provisional reading from the early eye copy and from published estampages and our own 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_INSPYU00023.
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