# Headless Bronze Buddha from Sriksetra

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00049

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00049.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

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

⟨1⟩ ⟨Face A⟩ ye dharmmā he(tu) ⟨Face b⟩ prabha ⟨Face C⟩ vā hetu(ṁ)
t(e)saṁ ⟨Face d⟩ tathāga⟨2⟩tohy avada

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ hy avada ⬦ Avada MonBoKay.

## Bibliography

First reported in No name N.d., pp. 1928–29: 108, as a statue minus its
head with the “Buddhist formula” in Sanskrit round the base.
MonBoKay1961a, also reports on the discovery and, on p. 115, provides an
eye drawing of the inscription with Burmese transliteration. Luce 1985,
pp. I, 146, gives an overview.

### Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus
of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item
DHARMA_INSPYU00049.

### Secondary

Ray, Niharranjan. 1936. Sanskrit Buddhism in Burma. 1st edition.
Amsterdam: H.J. Paris. [URL]. Page 20.