6 fragments of gold and silver leaf inside Bawbawgyi pagoda, Hmawza

Version: (e58a53b), last modified (c4e1250).

Bibliography

The discovery of inscribed gold and silver scrolls (among other items) inside an earthernware vase was first reported by Taw Sein Ko in ASI; said to be in such poor condition that only a few detached aksaras could be tentatively deciphered. Mya1961a, reports (in Burmese) on the same find, identifying the language as Pali and dating the script to the 6-7th centuries. Luce 1985, pp. I, 128, is a brief overview. Re-edited here from photographs.

Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake and Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item DHARMA_INSPYU00043.