# clay sealing Beikthano

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00063

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00063.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Script (unspecified)]

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

⟨1⟩ saṁghasiri

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ saṁghasiri ⬦ siri mita raya ASB; sirimitara ya ASB; sirimapataraya
ASB.

## Commentary

The explanation for the ASB misreading is given in Aung Thaw 1968a, p.
51. The author began with <siri> and failed to recognize the swastika,
reading it as <mita> instead. He also read the final <gh> as <y>.

## Bibliography

First reported (in Burmese) in ASB with possible readings <siri mita
raya>, <sirimitara ya> or <sirimapataraya>. Also reported in
Aung-Thaw1968a, which cites U Bo Kay’s correct reading, saṁgha siri.
Aung-Thaw1968b (= Aung-Thaw1993), repeats more or less the same material
in Burmese and Aung Thaw [Aoṅ sau] 1972, p. 4 (in English), dates the
sealing from the 2nd century. Griffiths-Lammerts2015 note the early date
of the artifact, while recognizing the possibility of its having been
imported.

### Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus
of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item
DHARMA_INSPYU00063.

### Secondary

Sein Maung U [Cin moṅḥ ūḥ]. 1970. “mran mā nuiṅ ṅaṃ rhi rheḥ hoṅḥ
kampaññḥ tan chip akhui. [Some ancient inscribed seals from Burma].”
takkasuil paññā padesā cā coṅ [University research journal] 5 (3), pp.
109–127. Page 110.