Stone Urn from Payagyi Pagoda

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Marc Miyake (mami), Julian Karl Wheatley (jukw).

Language: Undetermined (und) [Script (other) (script_other)].

Repository: Pyu Epigraphy (tfc-pyu-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00004.

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00004.xml.

Version: 2026-07-17 15:37 (bd0ad9f), last modified 2026-07-17 15:37 (bd0ad9f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (<siddham>) || tdaṃḥ ḅaṁḥ O hi suriyavikrama ḅaṁḥ sniḥ ṅa su rla piṁ ṅa ta kiṁ kha O (sn)iḥ sniḥ tru rla plaṁ tiṁ tdaṃḥ ḅaṁḥ O ru kleḥ yaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ miṁ • Comparison of <miṁ> and <plaṁ> in this inscription versus <ma> in PYU 3 seems to support the <m> reading. See images in corresponding Word file. But accidental damage to an original <p>, creating the misleading impression of presence of a crossbar typical of <m>, can plausibly be postulated should a <p> be required. If the phrase <rla miṁ ṅa> does mean ‘months five’, then <p> is etymologically more likely for the pre-syllable associated with ‘five’ (<ṅa>): cf. Lushai panga (Matisoff, HPTB, p. 149). — ⟨1⟩ suriyavikrama ⬦ sūriyavikrama Blagden 1913–1914; sūriyavikrama Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ ṅa ⬦ (ṅ)a Blagden 1913–1914; (ṅa) Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ su rla ⬦ sū (de) Blagden 1913–1914; sū (de) Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ piṁ ⬦ (p)iṁ Blagden 1913–1914; (pi)ṁ Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ ṅa ⬦ (ṅ)a Blagden 1913–1914. — ⟨1⟩ kiṁ kha ⬦ (k)iṁ (kha) Blagden 1913–1914; (kiṁ) (kha) Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ (sn)iḥ ⬦ [sn]iḥ Blagden 1913–1914; sniḥ Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ tru rla ⬦ t[ru sau] Blagden 1913–1914; tru sau Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ plaṁ ⬦ p(ḷ)aṁ Blagden 1913–1914. — ⟨1⟩ tiṁ ⬦ tiḥ Blagden 1913–1914; tiḥ Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ kleḥ ⬦ (kḷ)eḥ Blagden 1913–1914.

Translation

Blagden:

Year 50 (688 AD), 5th month, Sūriyavikrama himself died, aged 64 years.

San Win (2003: 18), revises Blagden as:

In the year 64 King Sūriya Vikrama died, at the age of 50 years and 5 months.

Bibliography

ASI, discusses the four Sriksetra urn inscriptions (PYU 3, 4, 5 and 6) with reference to Blagden’s dating. ASB cites Blagden’s reading of the names Sūriyavikrama. Blagden 1913–1914, p. (C) provides a transliteration of the inscription and tentative translation. Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963, pp. 47 (C), 51, has an eye drawing, a Burmese transliteration and an English translation (that matches Blagden’s). Luce, Luce 1985, pp. I, 48, 57 n. 13, 126–7, cites earlier works and repeats Blagden’s translation. Recently, Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, pp. 61, 64 published a slightly modified transliteration (in Burmese script) and a glossary. Re-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_INSPYU00004.

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