A Philological Study of Some Pyu Words through Inscriptions
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Regardless of disputes and different opinions of archeologists on historical data of
Pyu people and their kingdoms, this paper aims to do a philological study of some of Pyu’s words
through its inscriptions. Firstly some Pyu inscriptions will be generally studied to shed light
on the Theravā da influence in Pyu Period. Pyu language based on Pāḷi and Sanskrit thus it
performs as a bridge between Pāḷi, Sanskrit and Myanmar languages to some extent. Though
it is based on Pāḷi and Sanskrit, it does not use the words directly from those languages.
Therefore, it can be regarded that the Pyu language is the evolution of Pāḷi and Sanskrit. In
the evolution process, words may either slightly or totally change. In this work, the subtle Pyu’s
words of consecrated Queen, water, Buddha, well-done/let the goodness be and slave will
be philologically studied to prove that they are derived from Pāḷi language.
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