Sathup Din Phao Mueang Thap Chumphon Inscription 1

Script

Post-Pallava

Date

13th-14th Buddhist century

Language

Pali, Old Mon

Face/Line

1 face ; contains 2 lines of writing

Material

baked clay

Form

stupa

Size

37 cm. height

Found at

Mueang Thap Chumphon, Ban Thap Chumphon, Nong Krot Locality, Mueang District, Nakhon Sawan Province

Exhibited

Somdet Phra Narai National Museum, Tha Hin Locality, Mueang District, Lop Buri Province

Description

The inscription made on this stupa indicates it might have been constructed to offer to the temple. Ye Dhammā gatha and the purpose of this merit making is inscribed in Old Mon language on the clay stupa to gain merit (please refer to the content of Ye Dhammā gatha in ‘Ye Dhamma Inscription 1 (Nakhon Pathom)’ or ‘Inscription on Octagon Pillar 1 (Sap Champa)’). The inscription in Old Mon language says that ‘this stupa was built by 3 ancestors near the Vihāra.”

Reference

Edited by : The Insctriptions in Thailand Database Project Staffs (2553 B.E.), SAC, from :
1) Thoem Mitem and Yaem Praphatthong, “ <style type="text/css"><!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> </style> Mueang Thap Chumphon Inscription 1 ,” in The early ancient inscription found at Lop Buri Province and the vicinity (Bangkok : The Fine Arts Department, FAD, 2524), 33-37 (in Thai).
2) Thoem Mitem and Yaem Praphatthong, “ <style type="text/css"><!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> </style> Sathup Din Phao Mueang Thap Chumphon Inscription 1,” in The Inscriptions in Thailand volume 2 : Pallava and Mon Script, 12th-21th Buddhist century (Bangkok : The National Library of Thailand, NLT, 2529), 95-99 (in Thai).

Illustrations

Photograph from : The Inscriptions in Thailand volume 2 : Pallava and Mon Script, 12th-21th Buddhist century (Bangkok : The National Library of Thailand, NLT, 2529)