Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.37

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Pāli inscriptions, usually bilingual with Burmese or other local languages, are common in later times, even up to the modern era (see Duroiselle’s *List of Inscriptions*, passim). An exceptionally important late (A.D. 1476) bilingual (Pāli and Talain [Mon]) document is the Kalyāṇasīmā (Pegu) inscription of King Dhammaceti (Taw Sein Ko, *The Kalyāṇī Inscriptions*). This lengthy document on ten slabs, recording the consecration of and establishing regulations for the meeting place (*sīmā*) of monks, contains a vast body of information on the history and practice of Buddhism in Burma.