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_INSPYU00006.

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00006.xml.

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ <siddham> ∥ tdaṃḥ ḅaṁḥ O lu snuḥ [s]ihavikrama ḅaṁḥ sniḥ hraṁ su rla hniṁ tiṁ phvuṃ plaṁ ta kiṁ kha O sniḥ sniḥ plaṁ su plaṁ rla tko tiṁ phvuṃ npu tiṁ tdaṃḥ ḅaṁḥ O ru kleḥ yaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ lu • See note on PYU 1. • Blagden also proposed <roṃ>, <reṃ> and <nūṃ> as possible readings. — ⟨1⟩ npu • See note on PYU 5. — ⟨1⟩ lu ⬦ (bhūṃ) Blagden 1913–1914; bhū Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ snuḥ ⬦ s(n)ūḥ Blagden 1913–1914; snūḥ Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ su rla ⬦ sū (de) Blagden 1913–1914; sū (de) Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ plaṁ ⬦ p(ḷ)aṁ Blagden 1913–1914. — ⟨1⟩ kiṁ kha ⬦ (k)iṁ (kha) Blagden 1913–1914. — ⟨1⟩ plaṁ ⬦ p(ḷ)aṁ Blagden 1913–1914. — ⟨1⟩ su plaṁ rla ⬦ sū p(ḷ)aṁ (de) Blagden 1913–1914; sū plaṁ (de) Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ tko ⬦ t(k)o Blagden 1913–1914. — ⟨1⟩ phvuṃ ⬦ phvu Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ npu ⬦ (t)pū Blagden 1913–1914; nsū Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963. — ⟨1⟩ kleḥ ⬦ (kḷ)eḥ Blagden 1913–1914.

Translation

Blagden:

Year 80 (718 AD), 2nd month, 4th day; Sihavikrama died, aged 44 years, 9 months and 20 days.

San Win:

On the 20th day of the 9th month of the (Pyu = 363) year 44 King Siha Vikrama died. He was 80 years old.

Commentary

Vague traces of punctuation signs followed by another text after this one are visible on the estampages.

Note the allograph of <u> in <phvuṃ>.

Note <sniḥ sniḥ plaṁ su plaṁ rla tko tiṁ phvuṃ nsu tiṁ> ‘on year 44, month 9 (and?) day 20’

Bibliography

ASI notes the discovery of 006 along with 005, two urns “inscribed with legends in the Pyu character”. ASB, also notes Venkayya’s reading of the name [S]ihavikrama. Blagden 1913–1914, p. (B1) provides a complete transliteration and a tentative translation. (He also mentions the second, highly effaced inscription, his B2, that follows on the same line as B1, but he attempts no reading. This inscription is now generally regarded as unrecoverable.) Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963, pp. 47 (D), 50, has eye copy, a Burmese transliteration (with minor changes from Blagden) and English translation. Luce 1985, pp. I, 48, 57 n. 13, 126–7, is an overview. Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, p. 63 has a transliteration in Burmese script (again, with minor changes) 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_INSPYU00006.

Secondary

Shafer, Robert. 1943. “Further Analysis of the Pyu Inscriptions.” HJAS 7 (4), pp. 313–366. DOI: 10.2307/2717831. [URL]. Page 339.

Guy, John. 2014. Lost kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of early Southeast Asia. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pages 76–7 (cat. 24).

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