Kyaik Thanlans bell inscription

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This inscription is inscribed by Lord Singasra
in 1526 A.D. It is about his donation of the bell.
Two lines in Mon. Another two lines in Pli are
excerpted from a Buddhist text. From this inscription we found the name of Moulmein as
Mahlamlium (mah means penisula, lamlium
means- damaged) Moulmein means the damaged peninsula. Kyaik Thanlan and Salween
(Thanlwin) River was the same name which
means the damaged shore.
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(1) Two thousand seventy years, six months

and twenty two days after the Lord of the three
worlds (the Buddha) attained Nirvanna, on the
7th waxing day of Margasira (the 9th lunar
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month), Friday, lord Singasra, the governor of
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Mahlamlium (Moulmein), donated one hundred
sixty thousand coins (2) to cast this bell. Due to
this merit, may the rain always fall in due season, may all kings (rulers) on this earth reign in
righteousness, and may all living things always
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revere the Triple Gems and delight in doing
good deeds and giving to charitable causes.

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(4) (up to) year 889, no previous rulers of
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Moulmein owned the elephant carriages as
does the lord Singasra, the governor of Moul I
mein.

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Collected by Bee Htaw Monzel