Terracotta Molded Tablet from the Relic Chamber of Shwehsandaw pagoda, Pagan author of digital edition ArloGriffithsMarcMiyakeJulian KarlWheatley European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA DHARMA_INSPYU00074.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

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Text on front reproduced and transliterated into Burmese script by ; text on back transliterated into Burmese script by (no distinction being made between <b> and <ḅ>, no account being given of underdot <'>); the present edition as far as possible based on our own inspection of the avilable reproductions.

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ye dharmmā hetuprabhavā hetuṁ teṣāṁ hetu tathāgato Ava teṣāñ ca yo nīrodho Evavādī mahāśamaṇa
|| 0 || yaṁ ḅaṁḥ bhagaṃ va O diṃṁ draḥ ke sva ḥ saḥma dhiḥ sri bañaṇa ḅiṁḥ mgaṃḥ savañoda nirvaṃ O ṅo kto knaṁḥ mtraḥ rtiṁ mtu ḅaṁḥ mba metriya O nbu budha O daṃṁ hliṁḥ tmu ḅaḥ naḥ sadhu sadhu kliṁḥ kliṁḥ
dharmmā hetuprabhavā After dharmmā, where it seems possible to us to assume presence of repha ignored by Bo Mon Kay, this entire sequence becomes almost entirely unverifiable on the available image, and we adopt the reading of our predecessor. teṣāñ Mon Bo Kay assumes presence of the akṣara da before this, but we believe line 2 starts with te. ma Mya gives two small strokes below <ma>. This must be his representatiom of the two very short horizontal strokes below the <ma> that appear in the inscription. metriya Mya seems to have seen a superscript <r> (repha) in the above the <t>, but it is certainly not clear, and since he must have known it is not expected, one wonders what he was trying to represent. dharmmā dhammā teṣāñ ca da teṣā(ñca) diṃṁ diḥ draḥ traḥ ke sva ḥ keḥ dhiḥ baiḥ bañaṇa ba ñā no mgaṃḥ mgaḥ savañoda sa va ño da kto kno rtiṁ tīṁ mba metriya A ra me rtri ya O Uṁ nbu tñaṁ O ṭho daṃṁ daṁ hliṁḥ hḷiḥ ḅaḥ ba kliṁḥ kliṁḥ nṅiḥ nṅiḥ

Sri Bañaṇa; mentions Metriya

2–3: saḥmadhiḥ: is this from Indic samādhi?

3. bañaṇa: from Pali paññāṇa? The name was misread by Luce as Bañano.

4. sa⟪va⟫ñoda: from Pali sabbaññutā?

4. nirvaṃ: connection with nirvāṇa? To be emended thus?

6. For the phrase sadhu sadhu kliṁḥ kliṁḥ, cf. PYU 20. Note palaeograhic change in shape of <-l>.

First reported in 1926-27, 164, where it is described as six lines of Pyu on the reverse with mention of a possible donor, <sri bañaṇa> and the Buddha <metriya>. Reported in I, 23-4, with Burmese transliteration, and then again in 77 with a slightly different transliteration plus a tentative translation. 122 (bottom) provides a transliteration of the “Nāgarī” inscription on the obverse. Luce, in I, 99-100, II, 25, and in II, 25, summarizes. Re-edited here from published photographs.