fragment of terracotta molded tablet Myinbahu pagoda, Sriksetra
Version: (e58a53b), last modified (c4e1250).
Translation
Luce (PPPB I, p. 155): ?'(May I attain) noble Enlightenment'
Bibliography
Reported in ASI as a part of a tablet with Pyu writing on it. Luce 1985, pp. I, 155 (e), reads the inscription as ḅaṁḥ ḅu te ña draṃ and translates it as “May I obtain noble enlightenment”. Re-edited here from a photograph.
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_INSPYU00067.
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<p>Luce (PPPB I, p. 155): ?'(May I attain) noble Enlightenment'</p>
<!-- MM: I have no idea how Luce got anything but 'noble' out of this. -->
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<p>1. <seg type="graphemic">draṃ</seg>: Hapax legomenon. Same word as <seg type="graphemic">dra</seg> in 072 and elsewhere?</p>
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Commentary
1. draṃ: Hapax legomenon. Same word as dra in 072 and elsewhere?