# Clay Sealing Fragment of Unknown Provenance

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00034

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00034.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⟩ (t)ga siri

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (t)ga • Could be <nga>.

⟨2⟩ siri • We read <ri>rather than <dhi> here; the loop on the akṣara is
large, making it look like <dh>, but the serif of an <r> is still
visible. Note same shape of <ri> in PYU 8.1.

⟨1⟩ (t)ga ⬦ nga Middleton 2005. — ⟨1⟩ siri ⬦ sibi Middleton 2005; sidha
Middleton 2005.

## Translation

U San Win, Daw Le Le Win and Daw Sanda-U in Middleton (2005: 173)

auspicious city (nagara thiri)

## Commentary

Middleton’s statement that the inscription is in Pali is incorrect.

Is the text complete, or should we indicate that the beginning and end
are missing?

## Bibliography

Reported in Middleton 2005, pp. 173–4 (App. 58), thought incorrectly
reported as Pali in Pyu script instead of Pyu (in Pyu script). Middleton
gives three possible readings: <nagara thiri> (auspicious city),
<ngasibi> or <ngasidha>; but we read <tga siri> instead. Re-edited here
from a published photograph.

### Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus
of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item
DHARMA_INSPYU00034.