Sri Ksetra, Bago, Myanmar. Reliquary in repoussé silver.

Sri Ksetra, Bago, Myanmar. Reliquary with Pāli and Pyu inscriptions, in repoussé silver, as documented and published 1926-27 after being found in the Khin Ba relic chamber (located approximately at at 18°47'37"N 95°18'0"E).See: Janice Stargardt, "The Great Silver Reliquary from Sri Ksetra: the oldest Buddhist art in Burma and one of the two oldest Pali inscriptions in the world," in Festschrift for Professor J.G. de Casparis, ed. K. van Kooij and M. Klokke (Groningen: Egbert Forster, 2001), 487-519. 13 pls; Janice Stargardt, Tracing Thought Through Things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000)