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Myazeti inscription
epigraph
written in 1113 in the Pali,
Pyu, Mon, and Burmese languages and providing a key to the Pyu
language. The inscription, engraved on a stone found at the
Myazedi pagoda near Pagan, Myanmar (Burma), tells the story of
King Kyanzittha's deathbed reconciliation with his estranged son,
whom he had disinherited by a peace-producing compromise of 1084
that had helped end the bloodletting between the Pagan and Mon
kingdoms.
The
period described by the Myazedi stone saw the gradual decline in
the formal use of the Pali
and Mon languages,
and the rise of the Burmese language, which was
reaching maturity as a medium of literary expression, using Mon
script. The later decades of the Pagan period marked the
ascendancy of Burman cultural traits at the expense of Mon
tradition. The Myazedi inscription is a benchmark from which to
chronicle the development of a peculiarly Burman culture.
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