Fragments of gold and silver foil Khin Ba mound, Sriksetra
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⟨1⟩ siddha(m·) 2 || _ ḅay·ṁḥ kmak· (ḅa)y·ṁḥ toṅ· tṅav· tiṁ psiṁ _ ḅay·ṁḥ saḥ ḅay·ṁḥ goṃḥ _ °o saḥ ḅay·ṁḥ luṅ· hi(p)· _ ḅay·ṁḥ luṅ· ti(n·)ṁ droḥ kdiṃ _ ḅay·ṁḥ luṅ· tdav·ṃḥ _ daṅ·ṃṁ °oy· tsaṁḥ ḅuddha daṅ·ḥ tim·ṁ (m)l(i)y·ṁ kdaṅ· nhoḥ yaṁ _ ||<>
Bibliography
Reported in ASI, as 16 fragments of small gold and silver plates with one line of Pyu writing on them and below each line “a few letters at intervals in Brāhmi characters”, i.e. sublinear consonants. Our PYU 55 and 56 and 56 are probably also members of the 16. 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_INSPYU00073.
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Commentary
1. siddha[m·]: The leftwards curve of dh is not clearly connected back to the vertical under d; there is also an apparent anusvara above si, which we ignore as accidental depression in the foil; the top of the final m is obscured. On the whole the shape of this word here resembles that in PYU 24.
1. luṅ· (3×): same shape in PYU 1, in same word, also after ḅay·ṁḥ.
1. tsaṁḥ: or read tpaṁḥ?
1. nhoḥ: this seems to be the word for ‘three’, on whose onset we have yet to agree: h- or nh-? However, there is a mark where a final consonant would be which looks vaguely like a v·, r· or m·. No such word is attested and for now, the mark is regarded as accidental.