coin Western Shan States

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ (t)vaḥ tṅa ’X [da]

⟨2⟩ rvay·ṃḥ dasaḥ ’pa

Commentary

Type II of Mahlo's coins (no Type I in our inventory). Cf. 069

Are we dealing with ‘interlinear Brāhmī’ below this line (three times syllable-final -y), or not?

Bibliography

Illustrated in Mahlo 2012, pp. 132, 167 (app. 27.1), who did not recognize the inscription on the reverse as Pyu. Edited here from Mahlo’s published 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_INSPYU00068.