# metal sculpture Ushit-pin village, Lewai Township, near Pyinmana, Nay
Pyi Taw (Sein Win: “about a mile south of Shitpyin village, Lewei
township, Mandalay district”)

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00037

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00037.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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

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## Bibliography

Reported first in Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 1997, who provides an eye drawing
of the inscription (with some questionable representations, such as the
unusual retroflex ḷ), a Burmese transliteration and glosses. Naing Zaw
[Nuiṅ jau] 2011, pp. 546–7 dates the writing to roughly 6th to 8th
centuries and identifies <kraddharharīvima> as the reign name of a Pyu
king.

### Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus
of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item
DHARMA_INSPYU00037.

### Secondary

Stadtner, Donald M. [2005] 2013 (Reprint). Ancient Pagan: Buddhist plain
of merit. Bangkok: River Books.

Guy, John. 2014. Lost kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of early
Southeast Asia. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pages 90–1 (cat.
39).