A History of Pali Literature v2.c19.s1.1

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Inscriptions found in Burma. Two gold plates bearing inscription in Pāli, very closely allied to the Kadamba script of the 5th century A.D., of Southern India, were discovered at Maunggan, a village near old Prome, Burma. These two plates begin each with the well-known Buddhist formula : Ye dhammā hetuppabhavā tesaṁ hetu, etc., which is followed in the first, by 19 categories from the Abhidhamma in numerical order and, in the second, by the no less well-known praise of the Triratana. (An. R.A.S., Burma, 1924, p. 21.)