# Tondaw Menhir Inscription

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00023

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00023.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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

⟨1⟩ 1 siddhaM 2 ∥ [3×] ⟨2⟩ mi diṃṁ kiLṁ kiṄṁ _ miṄḥ li ⟨3⟩ […] sba O
praC diC dviC [3×] hya ⟨4⟩ […] ti juṄṁḥ tyaṄ si kaT [2×] O ḅiṁḥ miRṁḥ
ḅaḥ ti saṁḥ _ taR roM sba ti kha mūM ⟨5⟩ […] priḥ ḅa […] Ciṁ ba [5×]T
[1×] mi taM saT hvaM [1×] skuY taM ḅiṁ pdaṃ _ gaṃḥ tiṁ hnaM taM ḅiṁ tiRṁ
miR tiRṁ li tiM ṅaY tiCṁ [3×] pi ⟨6⟩ […] tḅiṁḥ taM ḅiṁ pciK […] ḅi piR
[1×]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.