4th C Stone Funeral Urn  

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18 March 1993, a large stone funeral urn was founded in Ancient City " Sriksetra ", the Hpaya Htaung excavation. Total 5 sentences contain 1127 words and 1.07 m Height. The inscription is fortunately not only in Pyu but Sanskrit as well, the script of which can be dated 4th Century. Inscribed around the stone funeral urn is a Pyu-Pali inscription in South Indian characters. The inscription identifies 7 names, presumably kings but the rest of words remain uncertain.

1 - Devamitra ( The Beloved of Gods )
ေဒဝ မိၾတ

2 - Harivikrama ( The Might of Visnu )
ဟရိ ဝိၾကမ

3 - Sihavikrama ( The Courage of Lion )
သီဟ ဝိၾကမ

4 - Suriyavikrama ( The Power of Sun )
သူရိယ ဝိၾကမ

5 -Crithuvikrama ( The Protection of Armour )
ျဂီထု ဝိၾကမ

6 - Jatratatavikrama ( The Terror of Race )
ဇၾတတတ ဝိၾကမ

7 - [A] dityavikrama ( The Glory of Sun Race )
အဒိတ် ဝိၾကမ

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