Burmese script translation request

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Ben
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Burmese script translation request

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Dear all,
I am hoping one of you can help me translate this for a friend.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
with metta,

Ben
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Re: Burmese script translation request

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The text is incomplete, and not meaningful without knowing who it relates to.

It looks like a birth chart — the symbols in the diagrams are mostly numbers.

The lines of text below are dates: The Buddhist year of 2,528, Burmese Era Sakkaraj 1346 ME.

Second line: January 31st Thursday.
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Ah, thank you Bhante.
The photo was taken by an old school friend of mine who is currently in Myanmar.
The photo seems to be with a number that were taken around Mandalay. I remember seeing similar inscriptions on the gabled steps up the summit of Mandalay Hill.
with metta,

Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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