Stela found at Amarapura
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Edition
⟨1⟩ […][**] [*]n· [*][*]r· (ḅi)n·(ṁḥ) (r)o ta ṭaḥ _ t(d)a(v·ṃ)ḥ ma ḅa mrau tmaḥ [*] (°o) saḥ _ tdav·ṃḥ ta (ga)ṅ· kgaṃḥ tol· ṅav· pr̥ kul· toy· tkir·ṁḥ kliṁḥ [**] tar· dav·ṃḥ _ tda[v·]ṃḥ tvat·ṃ (t)[i]n·ṁ droḥ [*]p· [*]m· toy·ṁ tkir·ṁḥ
⟨2⟩ [*****] (t)da(v)·ṃ kṭlo[t·] tdav·ṃḥ 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· gam·ṃḥ tol· ṅav· toy·ṁ tkir·ṁḥ °o saḥ _ tdav·ṃḥ °oṅ· dlav· tim·ṁ goṃḥ tol· ṅav· s(m)a toy·ṁ tkir·(ṁḥ)
⟨3⟩ [**********] hut· [****] yaṁ dav·ḥ tar· (ḅ)in·ṁḥ ro(m)· ñaḥ kak· ḅaḥ ta san· pva(ṃ) _ ma (ña/ro)ḥ ta(r)· (ḅ)in·[ṁḥ] san· pvaṃ _ viṃṁ tar· (tkir·ṁḥ) ma tam· ḅiṁ pvaṃ _ g(o)ṃḥ ta hnam· tam· ḅiṁ tiṁ phi _ tap· biṁ pik·ṁ tboC·ḥ 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 and Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item DHARMA_INSPYU00012.
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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.