C C T Ṅ C taR daṃVḥ tgaMṃḥ daṃVḥ tdaVṃḥ kdiLṁ jiṁḥ gaṃḥ mdrauṄ ndiKṃ kli s th ḅ v uY kdloN roM joK sdaKṃ taR daVṃḥ CrVṄ L P Ṅ T CkVṄ N Ṅ daVṃḥ taR daVṃḥ tgaMṃḥ daVṃḥ tdaVṃḥ kdiLṁ jiṁḥ gaṃḥ mdrauṄ ndiKṃ kli s c v uY kdloN roM joK sdaṃK taM pdaNṃḥ pdlauT tyaṄḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeNṃḥ tiṁ IP tliṄ giTṃ ce kkiṄṁ niNṁ yaṄ da daVṃḥ taR daVṃḥ tgaMṃ daVṃḥ tdaVṃḥ kdiLṁ jiṁḥ gaṃḥ mdroṄ ndiKṃ kli s c v uY N ḅiNṁḥ paYṁḥ ntulRḥ tṅaVḥ ñaḥ gi kdiVṃṁ mka tyaṄḥ tgoNṃḥ toY tva O kdiṃ gi naNḥ pṅaT tyaṄḥ tgoNṃḥ toY tva viṃṁ sguṄṃ kli ḅaT ḅaḥ gi mliTṁ mleṄḥ mliTṁ mleṄḥ pduRṃ taLṁ daṄṃṁ ḅaḥ gi teṄ pkaṄ le ṅuḥ gi ḅiNṁḥ tiḥ rya mliTṁ mleṄḥ dra hliṁḥ tiVṁ liṁ tiVṁ leṄḥ O khaḥ nba O paL praT ON pūṄ bu nsVT pVṄ gi diKṃṁ tguT gi ṭre phṅaN gi haVḥ pṭraT taR daVṃḥ pr̥ kuL toY tkiRṁḥ OnL diṃ tyaṄḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeLṃḥ tiṁ IP tliṄ daṄṃṁ tiṁ tdaLṃ tiṁ tdaVṃḥ tr̥ vu tr̥ daṄ piNṁ diTṃṁ ḅaḥ gi ṭloMḥ ta kruT ḅaḥ gi pduVṃ ta pṅaY le ṅuḥ tyaṄḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeNṃḥ tiṁ IP tliṄ daṄṃṁ tr̥ vu tr̥ daṄṃ tiṁ tdaLṃ tiṁ tdaVṃḥ kṭriPṁ piNṁḥ gi diṃKṁ tguT gi ṭre phṅaN le ṅuḥ taR draNṃ kruT tyaṄḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeLṃḥ tiṁ IP tliṄ viTṃṁ sguṄṃ kli O tḅaYṁḥ tkaḥ O mliTṁ mleṄḥ O mdruḥ mra O ṅoMḥ raNḥ O ndluP pr̥i gaTṃ siNṁ giT ta raT siNṁ baRḥ gi draNṁḥ ḅaḥ gi skiR piṁ pūRṁḥ ḅaḥ gi kuP nhmoḥ tyaṄḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeNṃḥ tiṁ IP tliṄ viTṃṁ sguṄṃ kli O tḅaYṁḥ tkaḥ O ṅoMḥ raTḥ O mdruḥ mra ḅaḥ gi paK laḥ ḅaḥ gi ?ḥ ḅaḥ gi deLṃḥ mdraYḥ ḅaḥ giK phiKṁ phiṁ tiRṁ ḅaḥ gi sruT diṃ ḅaḥ gi pniP pr̥ hiṄ ḅaḥ gi saṁḥ O rgaVṃ niNṁ laḥ O hyaṃḥ niNṁ kaY tiṁ pdraT thaK kdiṃ ḅa tgaYṃ piṄṁḥ nkuL tūM raT tka gi daṃḥ taK taR daVṃḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeLṃḥ tiṁ IP tliṄ O daVṃḥ pdiNṃṁ O ḅiNṁḥ paYṁḥ kiVṁ tliḥ loḥ raT driNṁ thaK kvuRṃ piTṁḥ gi bo daṃḥ tyaṄḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeLṃḥ tiṁ IP tliṄ daVṃ tiṁ tdaLṃ gi daVṃ ta daṄṃṁ tiMṁ taV gi pdiTṁ pta tgoV tiNṁ kaV O ḅiNṁḥ paYṁḥ pgauT hvuṃ kboT piTṁḥ gi pṅiT hvuṃ ḅiNṁḥ ḅiṁ loḥ gi riḥ thṅa ḅiNṁḥ daṃḥ loḥ gi naḥ kroṄ gaYṁḥ kdaṄ vo kaP kboT kboṄ naM kdiMṃṁ taR daVṃḥ pr̥ kuL toY tkiRṁḥ O praN ḅaḥ gi tgaYṃ tyaṄḥ ta viṃṁ yaṁ dri nu hnaM tdaVṃḥ tkuL mūṄḥ niNṁ kiRṁḥ O sguṃ ktuK kgaṃḥ nroMḥ tiTṁ ba gaYṁḥ rliL ma viTṃṁ sguṄṃ kli taR ḅiNṁḥ taK ṭroMḥ taR ḅiNṁḥ tiMṁ roM tiMṁ hliṁḥ taR ḅiNṁḥ tiMṁ kiLṁ tiMṁ diṃ mgauLṃ mcauṄ nma tiNṁ ṅaR tbiMṁ hmi la diNṃṁ taR ḅiṁḥ paYṁḥ nhmoK nhmoLḥ nhmuYḥ nḅaṄṁ tiNṁ giLṁ sdaṄṃ kciP tiṁ kdoLḥ la ḅaT taR ḅiNṁḥ paYṁḥ sgauLṃ kdiMṃṁ ntoR ndoṃ tlaRṁḥ tṅaT tiNṁ biMṁ la diNṃṁ taR ḅiNṁḥ paYṁḥ pdauṄṃ khnoḥ yaṁ nroMḥ ta kgoY tiRṁ gaṃ nkuL mūṄḥ tiNṁ kiRṁḥ tiNṁ ba mgeLṃ hi ta kraVṁḥ kroḥ ta tiNṁ daṃṄṁ tiNṁ maT O pgaṃ dri ḅaḥ gi coT saT ḅaḥ gi pdaTṃ pvaY ḅaḥ gi koNḥ kaḥ mcuḥ yaṁ ñaḥ tiNṁ ba yaṁ dri maN ta viṃṁ taM coT saT O hnauT nr̥ hnaM mra nmiR tiNṁ li tiMṁ ṅoY kkiṄṁ tiṁ slaY la ḅiNṁḥ paYṁḥ la mīNṁḥ kca la kdaṃ knuK piNḥ kpr̥ tiNṁ maT O kaṄ kṅaT tiMṁ gaṄ kdaṄ sguṄṃ priṄḥ khlaV tiṁ khliṄḥ ḅaḥ diNṃṁ daMṁ pdaKṃ ta viṃṁ yaṁ dri nr̥ hnaM tdaVṃḥ nroVḥ tiNṁ ba nruTḥ ngiLṃḥ kraVṁḥ tiṁ sgauKṃ taR ḅiNṁḥ roM ta tdaVṃḥ nr̥ hnaM ḅa kiTṁ tbaK la diNṃṁ ḅa diLṁ .@

1. <[daṃ]v[·ḥ] [t]daVṃ(ḥ) (k)d[i]Lṁ ṅ[i]ṁḥ>: this sequence was restored after material fully preserved in line 2.

1. <s[th/ḅ/v]uY>: the medial consonant is either misread or miswritten, cf. <scuY/svuY> which appears twice in l. 2.

1. <taR daVṃḥ>: the <ṃ> is marked rather higher than its usual position.

2. < tyaṄḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeNṃḥ tiṁ IP tliṄ>: the same sequence appears in l. 4.

2. <tgeNṃḥ>: cf. <tgeLṃḥ> elsewhere in this text.

3. </// .N (ḅi)Nṁḥ paYṁḥ>: restoration after occurrences of the sequence <ḅiNṁḥ paYṁḥ> in lines 6 and 8.

3. <tṅaVḥ>: should this be <tndaVḥ>? However, the turn to the bottom is not typical of medial <d>.

3. <viṃṁ sguṄṃ kli>: the same sequence recurs twice in line 5.

3. <pūṄ>: the parallel bar below the bottom line of <pu> might indicate that this akṣara is <AṄ> rather than <puṄ>; cf. the beginning of PYU 20, and lines 5 and 7 below.

4. <pVṄḥ>: the <p> has an unusual line in its bottom left corner.

4. <[t]geNṃḥ>: in identical sequences further on in this line, and in l. 2, this word figures as <tgeLṃḥ>. The presumptive <t> here is very imperfectly realized.

4. <gi d[i]Kṃ tgaN gi ṭre phṅaN>: restorations after material fully preserved further on in this line.

5. <viTṃṁ sguṄṃ kli >: the same sequence occured in line 3 as well as twice in this line.

5. <pūRṁḥ>: should this be read <ARṁḥ>? Cf. our note on <pūṄ> in l. 3.

5. <tyaṄḥ tiṁ priṄḥ tgeNṃḥ tiṁ IP nliṄ viTṃṁ sguṃṅ kli O tḅaYmḥ tkaḥ O>: this section repeats the last three akṣaras from line 4 and the first 8 from this line.

5. <ḅaḥ giK phiKṁ phi(ṁ) tiRṁ>: we presume the intended reading was <ḅaḥ gi phiKṁ phiKṁ tiRṁ>, with the two cases of <K> in immediate succession misplaced one akṣara to the left, and the <ṁ> of the second <phiKṁ> written next to, rather than on top of, its akṣara, and the whole akṣara <ti> plus its <ṁ> then raised substantially above the line, creating the impression that the unusually placed <ṁ> is an <ṃ> — which is unprecedented below a <t>.

6. <kvuRṃ and hvuṃ>: cf. the <u> allograph in <phvuṃ> (‘day' in dates) in PYU 5 and PYU 6, and the same in <hvuṃ> found in PYU 16. This allograph of <u> occurs in the environment of <v>.

6. <mūṄḥ>: should this be read <AṄḥ>? Cf. our note on <pūṄ> in l. 3. The same word occurs in l. 8.

6. <sguṃ>: this should be possibly be edited as <sguṃ⟨Ṅ⟩>.

6. <ktuK>: perhaps the same as the syllable we read knuK in l. 9.

7. <nro[m]·ḥ>: cf. <nroMḥ> in l. 8 and and <nroVḥ> in l. 10. The <[m]·> is upside down.

7. <gaYṁḥ rliL ma viTṃṁ sguṄṃ kli>: what seems to be the same sequence appears in l. 9, there certainly without final consonant below <rli>.

7. <taR ḅiNṁḥ taK ṭroMḥ taR ḅiNṁḥ tiMṁ ro[M]>: cf. a parallel passage in PYU 19, l. 2. This should be possibly be edited as <ro⟨M⟩> or <ro(M)>.

8. <nroMḥ>: cf. <nroMḥ> in l. 7 and <nroVḥ> in l. 10.

8. <co[t]· sa⟨T⟩>: reading inferred from the occurrence of what we presume to be the same sequence at the end of the line.

8. <tiNṁ maT O>: the same sequence occurs in l. 9.

9. <ta viṃṁ taM>: is repeated just along the line. The <t> graphs differ slightly: several have the upside down wineglass shape but no loops, one has a clear loop. There does not seem to be a single feature among them that might suggest different graphemes, <n> versus <t>.

9. <gaYṁḥ rli ma viTṃṁ sguṄṃ kli>: what seems to be the same sequence appeared in l. 7, there apparently with a final consonant below <rli>.

9. <knuK>: perhaps the same as the syllable we read <ktuK> in l. 7.

9. <tiNṁ maT O>: the same sequence occurs in l. 9.

10. <nroVḥ>: cf. <nro[m]·ḥ> in l. 7 and and <nroMḥ> in l. 8. If these are the same word, the spellings could point to a sound change *-om > -ow as in Tangut.

Recorded in 13 who notes a broken top, but ten lines remaining. 111-2 remarks on a distinctive “r” and “i” in the inscription and cites San Win in finding the script similar to that of the Sriksetra gold plates. 137-51 has eye drawings and a complete transliteration. Re-edited here from published photographs and our team’s RTIs.

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