Tondaw Menhir Inscription
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⟨1⟩ 1 siddham· 2 || [***]
⟨2⟩ mi diṃṁ kil·ṁ kiṅ·ṁ _ miṅ·ḥ li
⟨3⟩ […] sba °o praC· diC· dviC· [***] hya
⟨4⟩ […] ti juṅ·ṁḥ tyaṅ· si kat· [**] °o ḅiṁḥ mir·ṁḥ ḅaḥ ti saṁḥ _ tar· rom· sba ti kha mūm·
⟨5⟩ […] priḥ ḅa […] Ciṁ ba [*****]t· [*] mi tam· sat· hvam· [*] skuy· tam· ḅiṁ pdaṃ _ gaṃḥ tiṁ hnam· tam· ḅiṁ tir·ṁ mir· tir·ṁ li tim· ṅay· tiC·ṁ [***] pi
⟨6⟩ […] tḅiṁḥ tam· ḅiṁ pcik· […] ḅi pir· [*]C· tset· ||<>
Bibliography
Tha Myat [sā mrat] 1963, p. 78 reproduces an eye copy of one face of the inscription, reported to have been sent with a letter dated 29 Oct. 1894 from A. R. Bricks, Officiating Commissioner, Arakan Division, to Dr. D. E. Hultzsch, Government Epigraphist, Madras; no transliteration is provided. Luce 1985, pp. I, 50, 57 n. 22, 150, summarizes earlier information and sources. Sein Win [cin vaṅḥ] 2016, pp. 189–93 transliterates part of the inscription (in Burmese script). We provide a new provisional reading from the early eye copy and from published estampages and our own photographs.
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_INSPYU00023.
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