Inscription Pra Pathom

Mon inscriptions from the capital city of Dvaravati Mon Kingdom

 လိ က္ မန္ ၐိ  မန္ ၐိ  ု  ု တ္  တ္ မဆု  မဆု  ႝ  ႝ ကၜ  ကၜငဳ ္  မဒွ  ္ လိ  လိ က္  က္ ေႀတံA  ိ  ု  ု တ္  တ္  မခ်ဴလဝ္ သု  ီ  ီ ၐါလပၚ။  ၐါလပၚ။ တဿ  တဿA  ္ ဂွ  ္ ထၠ းဒဿ  ံင္ တု င တု ္    ဲ  မဂြ  မဂြ  ံဆု ဆ  ႝုေကတ္ ေကတ္  ပႜ    ဲ ဖရပထု  ံ မဒွ  မဒွ  ္ လိ က္ ႏူေAဒ႘ ၆  ၆ ဗြ ဝ္ ကၜ  ံ။ မြ    ဲ ကေရက္ ဂွ  ဂွ  ္ ႏြ  ံ  ံ ပန္  ပန္ေပှ ာန္ ေပှ ာန္ တု  တု    ဲ လပၚမြ  လပၚမြ    ဲ  ကေရက္ ဂွ  ဂွ  ္ ႏြ  ံ  ံ ပိ  ပိေပှ ေပှ ာန္ရ။ လိ ရ။  လိ က္ ဂွ  ဂွ  ္ ခ်ဴလဝ္  ပ႐ူ  ပ႐ူ မကု  မကု  ႝဒါန္ ဒါန္  ကု က်္ ာ ဝိ ဟာရ္ ဂွ  ္ ဂြ  ဂြ  ံ  ံ တီ  တီေကတ္ ေကတ္    ဲဗြက းဖႜ းရ။ ၜ  းရ။ ၜ းဖႜ  လိ က္ မန္  မန္ေႀတံ ေႀတံ မြ    ဲပၜန္ ဂွ န ဂွ္   ္ မခ်ဴ  မခ်ဴလဝ္  ပႜ    ဲတ  ုိင္ငဒစာံ ကၜ ဒ္ စာံ ကၜင္င္ ႏူဍဳ ဍငဳ ္  လပ္ ပူ  လပ္  ပူရ႘ရ႘ရ။ ရ။ G. Cædès မဗွ  ္ လဝ္  လဝ္ တု  တု    ဲ လိ  လိ က္ ဂွ  ဂွ  ္ မဒွ  မဒွ  ္ ပ႐ူ စရင္  မဒါန္ သြက က  ္ က် ္ ာ တု    ဲ မခ်ဴ  မခ်ဴလဝ္  ပႜ    ဲA ၾကာ ေAဒ႘  ၇  ၇  ဟြ  ံေသင္ မၢ ေသင္ မၢ း း ၈  ၈ ဗြဗြ ဝ္  ဝ္ ကၜ  ံရ။ တိ ရ။ တိ  ုင္ တဿ င တဿ ္ A  ္ ဂွ  ္ လဿ  လဿဟ ဳ ္  ထၞ းပ်းလဝ္  ထၞ းပ်းလဝ္  ပႜ    ဲ တိ  ုင္ လိ င လိ ္  က္ ကၞ  ကၞင္ ကံ င ကံ ္  က္ ။ The oldest Mon inscriptions engraved on two sides of a small stone fragment found at Phra Pathom dated in the 6th century A.D. There are four  short lines on the first side and three on the second. Very clearly, it was recorded on the offerings made to the pagoda called Kyaik Vihâr  meaning pagoda of the monastery.  Another old Mon inscription inscribed on on an octagonal stone pillar found in Lopburi was read and edited by G. Coedès. It contains list of gifts donated to Buddha dating back to 7th or 8th century  A.D. The stone is now in the National Library of  Bangkok.

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Collected by Bee Htaw Monzel