Fragment of terracotta molded tablet Myinbahu pagoda, Sriksetra
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Apparatus
⟨1⟩ nu ⬦ tra Mya1961; cu Luce 1985; tra Tun Aung Chain 2003. — ⟨1⟩ phu ⬦ phū Luce 1985.
Translation
Tun Aung Chain concurs with Mya. He follows Myazedi and interprets <tra> as ‘ornament’, translating the inscription as: “this ornament is the meritorious deep of Hnadamra” or, taking hna as a title, “of hna Damra”. He also notes a similar phrase, <hna dra mu>, in the Hpayahtaung Urn inscription (020).
Bibliography
Discovery of a trove of molded tablets, including this fragment, first reported by in ASI. Mya1961a (in Burmese), provides a Burmese reading (ga). Luce, Luce 1985, pp. I, 155, provides a slightly different reading. Tun Aung Chain 2003, p. 9 concurs with Mya’s reading and suggests that phu in the inscription renders the Sanskrit punya “meritorious deed”. Edited here from published photographs.
Primary
Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item DHARMA_INSPYU00072.
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<p>Tun Aung Chain concurs with Mya. He follows Myazedi and interprets <tra> as ‘ornament’, translating the inscription as: “this ornament is the meritorious deep of Hnadamra” or, taking hna as a title, “of hna Damra”. He also notes a similar phrase, <hna dra mu>, in the Hpayahtaung Urn inscription (020).</p>
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<p>1. <nu> ◇ or <tra>; but the descender does not extend to the left as far as the <r>’s of <dra> and <mra>. In other inscriptions, <n> + descender that loops upwards we have read <nu>.</p>
<p>AG (20160625): <nu> seems rather uncertain on Mya plate, but PPPB plate (the artifact here displays mark II 298) is clear for this akṣara.</p>
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Commentary
1. <nu> ◇ or <tra>; but the descender does not extend to the left as far as the <r>’s of <dra> and <mra>. In other inscriptions, <n> + descender that loops upwards we have read <nu>.
AG (20160625): <nu> seems rather uncertain on Mya plate, but PPPB plate (the artifact here displays mark II 298) is clear for this akṣara.