The Archaeological Survey of Burma's series of edited inscriptions with full translations. Its strength is the Mon material: the Myazedi inscription of 1113, Kyanzittha's Mon inscriptions and the Ananda temple plaques, and Blagden's Mon studies, which document the Mon language and church of Pagan a century before 1200. For 1200 itself it is thin: the records of Narapatisithu's reign are mostly in Old Burmese and were left to the Inscriptions of Burma portfolios, but the series fixes the Pagan kings' titles and the religious institutions that still stood in 1200.
About this source
- Title
- Epigraphia Birmanica
- Author
- Various, edited by Taw Sein Ko, C. Duroiselle and C. O. Blagden
- Written
- inscriptions of the 11th to 15th centuries; the series ran from 1919 to 1936
- Language
- Mon, Pali, Old Burmese and Pyu, with English translations
- Covers
- about 1050 to 1450
- Kind
- Inscriptions
No Wikipedia article on the series was found. The Pali inscriptions of Pagan, including the record of Narapatisithu's monks' mission to Lanka, are discussed in vol. 1 and in Luce's work.
Where to read it
Editions
- Epigraphia Birmanica, vols. 1 to 4 (Rangoon, 1919 to 1936), combined searchable scan; unofficial upload, the volumes themselves are out of copyright (in copyright; not linked) (not freely online)
- Epigraphia Birmanica vol. 1 (1919 to 1920)
- Epigraphia Birmanica vol. 2, part 2 (1924)