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| Inscription ID | PYU11 |
| Title | Stone Stela Inscription from near the Tharaba Gate |
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| Parent Object | OBPYU11 |
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| Author | L. de Beylié |
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| Language | Pyu , 漢語 |
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| Topic | Pyu: illegible; Chinese: Yuan dynasty memorial (“not destroy Mien kingdom”), but this face is also barely legible. |
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| Min | 1287 |
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| Comment | During or after the Chinese invasion of Pagan in 1287 CE, although the Archaeological Survey of Burma Annual Report for 1916 suggests "probably dated 1284 A.D.". |
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| Description | A bilingual inscription engraved on both sides of a stone stela with around 25 lines in Chinese on one side and around 25 lines in Pyu on the other. The Pyu text is illegible and the Chinese text is only barely legible. |
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| References | de Beylié 1907b: 83 (n. 1) makes passing reference to this badly effaced inscription, noting that it was bilingual with one side in Chinese. The inscription is mentioned in the Archaeological Survey of Burma Annual Reports for 1907 (p. 10), 1910 (p. 21, where the non-Chinese side is mistakenly identified as Mongol rather than Pyu), 1916 (pp. 18, 20, 55), 1917 (pp. 24-25) and 1922 (p. 167). It is also discussed in Blagden 1913–1914: 127 (6). Chen Yi-Sein 1960 identified about 80 characters on the Chinese side, enough to propose that the text was an imperial edict dating from approximately 1297. In Phases of pre-Pagán Burma (1985: I, 67, 75 n. 38-39), Luce estimates 25 lines for the Pyu face. Sein Win 2016: 175-85 is the first attempt to transliterate (in Burmese script) all legible parts of the Pyu face. |
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