Stela found at Amarapura
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⟨1⟩ […][**] [*]N [*][*]R (ḅi)N(ṁḥ) (r)o ta ṭaḥ _ t(d)a(Vṃ)ḥ ma ḅa mrau tmaḥ [*] (O) saḥ _ tdaVṃḥ ta (ga)Ṅ kgaṃḥ toL ṅaV pr̥ kuL toY tkiRṁḥ kliṁḥ [**] taR daVṃḥ _ tda[V]ṃḥ tvaTṃ (t)[i]Nṁ droḥ [*]P [*]M toYṁ tkiRṁḥ
⟨2⟩ [*****] (t)da(V)ṃ kṭlo[T] tdaVṃḥ tda[V]ṃ[ḥ] ta [****] saḥ [*][*](V) [*]M gaṃ toL [*]C pr̥ ku[L] [toY] nk(iR)ṁḥ _ tda(V)ṃḥ li mrau kaK taN gaMṃḥ toL ṅaV toYṁ tkiRṁḥ O saḥ _ tdaVṃḥ OṄ dlaV tiMṁ goṃḥ toL ṅaV s(m)a toYṁ tkiR(ṁḥ)
⟨3⟩ [**********] huT [****] yaṁ daVḥ taR (ḅ)iNṁḥ ro(M) ñaḥ kaK ḅaḥ ta saN pva(ṃ) _ ma (ña/ro)ḥ ta(R) (ḅ)iN[ṁḥ] saN pvaṃ _ viṃṁ taR (tkiRṁḥ) ma taM ḅiṁ pvaṃ _ g(o)ṃḥ ta hnaM taM ḅiṁ tiṁ phi _ taP biṁ piKṁ tboCḥ ta hna[M] mra ḅiṁḥ [*]
Bibliography
ASB reports the inscription in Bodawpaya’s Amarapura collection and relates correspondence with Blagden. Mention is also made in ASB. It is also included as #5 in the list of known Pyu inscriptions in Blagden 1913–1914, p. 127 (5). Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, pp. 127–30 provides the only transliteration (in Burmese script).
Primary
Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item DHARMA_INSPYU00012.
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<p>The shape of presumptive <ḅ> is noteworthy: it is in most cases a dot in a square, resembling the shape of <ḅ> in Old Mon.</p>
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Commentary
The shape of presumptive <ḅ> is noteworthy: it is in most cases a dot in a square, resembling the shape of <ḅ> in Old Mon.