Stela from Hpayahtaung Pagoda
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Edition
⟨1⟩ [1 s](i)ddhaM 2∥ hmiṁ taR mi(ḥ) pu thṅa haMḥ (paṄ) O roḥ (mgaṃ) [*]Cḥ gaYṁḥ mvaYṃ tiṁ priṄḥ sa[ḥ] mhuRḥ ha
⟨2⟩ O mra piTṁ taR ḅiNṁḥ taK ṭro(M)ḥ ta ḅi(N)ṁḥ roM dre _ (t)aR ya(Ṅ)ḥ (t)yaṄḥ k(ṅ)o(Y) (si)R[ṁ] kaT[ṁ] msauṄ (ḅa) tniNḥ tdeRṃḥ ciK tiNṁ mu tiNṁ gaMṃḥ nuN (g)aM(ṃ)
⟨3⟩ tiṁ pd(l)auT ḅa tmiT tṅaT _ ∥@
Bibliography
A eye drawing and a Burmese transliteration appears in Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, pp. 35–6. Re-edited here from our team’s RTIs.
Primary
Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item DHARMA_INSPYU00019.
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<p>2. Note parallelism with PYU <ref target="DHARMA_INSPYU00032">32</ref>, l. 7: <taR ḅiNḥṁ roM>.</p>
<p>2. Note parallelism with PYU <ref target="DHARMA_INSPYU00020">20</ref>, l. 1: <yaṄḥ tyaṄḥ ktoY siRṁ k/ñaTṁ msoṄ>.</p>
<p>2. Note parallelism with PYU <ref target="DHARMA_INSPYU00027">27</ref>, l. 1: <tiNṁ mu tiNṁ gaMṃḥ>.</p>
<p>3. <tṅaT>: the second consonant in the onset at first sight looks like <dha>. If this were correct, then one might compare the last akṣara of PYU <ref target="DHARMA_INSPYU00017">17</ref>. But reading <tṅa> seems more likely.</p>
<p>3. <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/> indicates a
large gap before final punctuation. See a similarly large gap in <ref target="DHARMA_INSPYU00027">PYU 27.7</ref>.</p>
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<p>A eye drawing and a Burmese transliteration appears in <bibl><ptr target="bib:SeinWin2016_01"/><citedRange>35-6</citedRange></bibl>. Re-edited here from our team’s RTIs. </p>
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Commentary
2. Note parallelism with PYU 32, l. 7: <taR ḅiNḥṁ roM>.
2. Note parallelism with PYU 20, l. 1: <yaṄḥ tyaṄḥ ktoY siRṁ k/ñaTṁ msoṄ>.
2. Note parallelism with PYU 27, l. 1: <tiNṁ mu tiNṁ gaMṃḥ>.
3. <tṅaT>: the second consonant in the onset at first sight looks like <dha>. If this were correct, then one might compare the last akṣara of PYU 17. But reading <tṅa> seems more likely.
3. _ indicates a large gap before final punctuation. See a similarly large gap in PYU 27.7.