Fragment of terracotta molded tablet Myinbahu pagoda, Sriksetra
Version: (e58a53b), last modified (c4e1250).
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ nu ⬦ tra Mya1961; cu Luce 1985; tra Tun Aung Chain 2003. — ⟨1⟩ phu ⬦ phū Luce 1985.
Translation
Tun Aung Chain concurs with Mya. He follows Myazedi and interprets tra as ‘ornament’, translating the inscription as: “this ornament is the meritorious deep of Hnadamra” or, taking hna as a title, “of hna Damra”. He also notes a similar phrase, hna dra mu, in the Hpayahtaung Urn inscription (020).
Bibliography
Discovery of a trove of molded tablets, including this fragment, first reported by in ASI. Mya1961a (in Burmese), provides a Burmese reading (ga). Luce, Luce 1985, pp. I, 155, provides a slightly different reading. Tun Aung Chain 2003, p. 9 concurs with Mya’s reading and suggests that phu in the inscription renders the Sanskrit punya “meritorious deed”. Edited here from published 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_INSPYU00072.
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<p>Tun Aung Chain concurs with Mya. He follows Myazedi and interprets <seg type="graphemic">tra</seg> as ‘ornament’, translating the inscription as: “this ornament is the meritorious deep of Hnadamra” or, taking hna as a title, “of hna Damra”. He also notes a similar phrase, <seg type="graphemic">hna dra mu</seg>, in the Hpayahtaung Urn inscription (020).</p>
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<p>1. <seg type="graphemic">nu</seg> ◇ or <seg type="graphemic">tra</seg>; but the descender does not extend to the left as far as the <seg type="graphemic">r</seg>’s of <seg type="graphemic">dra</seg> and <seg type="graphemic">mra</seg>. In other inscriptions, <seg type="graphemic">n</seg> + descender that loops upwards we have read <seg type="graphemic">nu</seg>.</p>
<p>AG (20160625): <seg type="graphemic">nu</seg> seems rather uncertain on Mya plate, but PPPB plate (the artifact here displays mark II 298) is clear for this akṣara.</p>
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Commentary
1. nu ◇ or tra; but the descender does not extend to the left as far as the r’s of dra and mra. In other inscriptions, n + descender that loops upwards we have read nu.
AG (20160625): nu seems rather uncertain on Mya plate, but PPPB plate (the artifact here displays mark II 298) is clear for this akṣara.