Fragments of gold and silver foil Khin Ba mound, Sriksetra
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⟨1⟩ siddha(M) 2 ∥ _ ḅaYṁḥ kmaK (ḅa)Yṁḥ toṄ tṅaV tiṁ psiṁ _ ḅaYṁḥ saḥ ḅaYṁḥ goṃḥ _ O saḥ ḅaYṁḥ luṄ hi(P) _ ḅaYṁḥ luṄ ti(N)ṁ droḥ kdiṃ _ ḅaYṁḥ luṄ tdaVṃḥ _ daṄṃṁ OY tsaṁḥ ḅuddha daṄḥ tiMṁ (m)l(i)Yṁ kdaṄ nhoḥ yaṁ _ ∥@
Bibliography
Reported in No name N.d., pp. 1926–7: 180 (no. 38), 201, as 16 fragments of small gold and silver plates with one line of Pyu writing on them and below each line “a few letters at intervals in Brāhmi characters”, i.e. sublinear consonants. Our PYU 55 and 56 and 56 are probably also members of the 16. 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_INSPYU00073.
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<p>1. <siddha[M]>: The leftwards curve of <dh> is not clearly connected back to the vertical under <d>; there is also an apparent anusvara above <si>, which we ignore as accidental depression in the foil; the top of the final <m> is obscured. On the whole the shape of this word here resembles that in PYU 24.</p>
<p>1. <luṄ> (3×): same shape in PYU 1, in same word, also after <ḅaYṁḥ>.</p>
<p>1. <tsaṁḥ>: or read <tpaṁḥ>?</p>
<p>1. <nhoḥ>: this seems to be the word for ‘three’, on whose onset we have yet to agree: <h-> or <nh->? However, there is a mark where a final consonant would be which looks vaguely like a <V>, <R> or <M>. No such word is attested and for now, the mark is regarded as accidental.</p>
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Commentary
1. <siddha[M]>: The leftwards curve of <dh> is not clearly connected back to the vertical under <d>; there is also an apparent anusvara above <si>, which we ignore as accidental depression in the foil; the top of the final <m> is obscured. On the whole the shape of this word here resembles that in PYU 24.
1. <luṄ> (3×): same shape in PYU 1, in same word, also after <ḅaYṁḥ>.
1. <tsaṁḥ>: or read <tpaṁḥ>?
1. <nhoḥ>: this seems to be the word for ‘three’, on whose onset we have yet to agree: <h-> or <nh->? However, there is a mark where a final consonant would be which looks vaguely like a <V>, <R> or <M>. No such word is attested and for now, the mark is regarded as accidental.