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 "id": "dat-lone",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "ลูกแก้วธาตุ",
  "roman": "dat-lone",
  "en": "Dat-lone (weikza alchemical ball)",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "ดั๊ตโลน",
    "ลูกธาตุพม่า",
    "เหล็กไหลพม่า"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "dat lone",
    "datlone",
    "dhat lone",
    "pyada lone"
   ],
   "en": [
    "alchemical ball",
    "weizza ball",
    "Burmese philosopher's stone"
   ]
  },
  "other_scripts": {
   "my": "ဓာတ်လုံး"
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "mm"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": null,
  "functions": [
   "khong_kraphan",
   "khlaeo_khlat",
   "khum_khrong"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "nuea_loha"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "object"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "bead",
  "shape_th": "ลูกกลมเล็ก ผิวมัน โลหะสีเข้ม ทำจากปรอทหรือเหล็กที่ผ่านการหุงตามวิชา",
  "shape_en": "A small polished ball of dark metal, made by firing mercury (pyada path) or iron (than path) through the alchemical stages. Held in the hand, carried in a pouch or cased.",
  "size_mm": null,
  "wearable_th": "พกในถุงหรือตลับ ไม่ค่อยห้อยคอ",
  "wearable_en": "Carried in a pouch or case rather than hung at the neck; size and finish vary by maker",
  "obverse_th": "",
  "obverse_en": "",
  "reverse_th": "",
  "reverse_en": "",
  "notes_en": "The Burmese Wikipedia article at ဓာတ်လုံး treats the term as the philosopher's stone of Western alchemy and gives ပြဒါးရှင်လုံး (living-mercury ball) as a synonym; the weikza usage is the same word applied to the adept's own product."
 },
 "iconography": [],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": null,
  "wat_th": "",
  "wat_en": "",
  "maker_th": "วิชชาสายปรอทและสายเหล็ก",
  "maker_en": "Weikza of the mercury (pyada) and iron (than) paths",
  "era_th": "ไม่ระบุ",
  "era_en": "Undated; the weikza movement as now known is placed in the Konbaung period",
  "place_th": "พม่า",
  "place_en": "Myanmar",
  "first_attested": ""
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "เป็นลูกกลมขัดมัน ไม่ใช่ก้อนแร่ดิบจากถ้ำ",
   "en": "A worked, polished ball rather than a rough fragment; the object was made, not found",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "ไม่มีอักขระ ไม่มีรูป",
   "en": "No inscription and no figure — unlike a takrut or a Buddha, its claim rests on the material alone",
   "source": "s:vault-classes",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "สายเหล็กติดแม่เหล็ก สายปรอทไม่ติด",
   "en": "An iron-path ball answers a magnet; a mercury-path ball does not. The magnet separates the two paths and exposes a plated substitute",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "inference"
  },
  {
   "th": "หนัก เย็น ไม่ยืดเมื่อโดนไฟ — ต่างจากเหล็กไหลที่เล่ากันว่ายืดได้",
   "en": "Dense and cold, and it does not stretch under flame; the Thai lek lai story is of a metal that softens and draws like thread when heated with honey",
   "source": "s:th-wiki-lek-lai",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "ตลาดไทยไม่มีคำเรียกตายตัว ของที่ขายว่า 'เหล็กไหลพม่า' ต้องถามว่าทำหรือขุด",
   "en": "Thai listings have no fixed word for it; anything sold as 'Burmese lek lai' should be asked whether it was made or dug, because that is the whole difference",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "lek-lai",
   "tell_th": "เหล็กไหลเป็นของธรรมชาติที่ไปเอามาจากถ้ำด้วยพิธี พลังอยู่ในตัวมันเอง · ดั๊ตโลนเป็นของที่วิชชาหุงขึ้นจากปรอทหรือเหล็ก พลังมาจากการทำ ทั้งสองไม่มีผู้อยู่และไม่ต้องเลี้ยง",
   "tell_en": "Lek lai is a natural metal fetched from a cave by rite; its power is held to be inherent, and the Thai class calls it a natural talisman. A dat-lone is made: a weikza fires mercury or iron up through the stages until the ball is finished, so the power is in the work. Same look in the hand — a dark lustrous lump — opposite provenance question. Both have nobody home. Ask 'found or fired?' in either direction."
  },
  {
   "id": "luk-om",
   "tell_th": "ลูกอมเป็นผงหรือขี้ผึ้งปั้นกลม เบาและอ่อน · ดั๊ตโลนเป็นโลหะหนัก",
   "tell_en": "A Thai luk om is a ball of pressed powder or wax, light and soft; a dat-lone is dense metal."
  },
  {
   "id": "mustika",
   "tell_th": "มุสติกาเป็นหินหรือไข่มุกที่พบในสัตว์หรือพืช ถือเป็นของธรรมชาติ · ดั๊ตโลนเป็นของที่ทำ",
   "tell_en": "A Malay-Indonesian mustika is a stone or pearl found inside an animal or plant, a natural object; a dat-lone is manufactured metal."
  },
  {
   "id": "khot-kala",
   "tell_th": "คดกะลาเป็นก้อนแข็งในกะลามะพร้าว ไม่ใช่โลหะ",
   "tell_en": "A khot kala is a concretion found in a coconut shell, not metal, and not made."
  }
 ],
 "market": {
  "search": [],
  "excludes": [],
  "tier": "unknown"
 },
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   "File:Weizzas, Taunggyi pagoda.JPG",
   "File:Famous Yogis and Wizirds from Myanmar.JPG"
  ],
  "wanted_en": "No free photograph of a dat-lone itself exists on Commons as of 2026-09-02; the files listed show the weikza shrine context only. Needed: one ball in the palm for scale, and a magnet test frame."
 },
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   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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   "credit": "Own work",
   "view": "other",
   "alt_th": "ลูกแก้วธาตุ",
   "alt_en": "Dat-lone (weikza alchemical ball) — Famous Weizzas from Myanmar",
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   "file": "dat-lone/dat-lone-weizzas-taunggyi-pagoda-75697d.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Weizzas, Taunggyi pagoda.JPG",
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   "credit": "Own work",
   "view": "other",
   "alt_th": "ลูกแก้วธาตุ",
   "alt_en": "Dat-lone (weikza alchemical ball) — Weizzas (wizards) shrine at a pagoda in Taunggyi",
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   "file": "dat-lone/dat-lone-famous-yogis-and-wizirds-from-myanmar-f602d4.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Famous Yogis and Wizirds from Myanmar.JPG",
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   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0",
   "author": "Lionslayer",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "view": "other",
   "alt_th": "ลูกแก้วธาตุ",
   "alt_en": "Dat-lone (weikza alchemical ball) — Famous Yogis and Wizards from Myanmar",
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 "text": {
  "what_th": "ลูกกลมโลหะที่วิชชาพม่าหุงขึ้นจากปรอทหรือเหล็ก เชื่อกันว่าเมื่อสำเร็จจะให้คงกระพัน อายุยืน และเป็นบันไดสู่ความเป็นวิชชา เป็นคู่เทียบของเหล็กไหลไทย แต่เหล็กไหลเป็นของที่ไปเอามา ส่วนดั๊ตโลนเป็นของที่ทำขึ้น",
  "what_en": "The alchemical ball of the Burmese weikza tradition: mercury or iron fired through the stages until it is held to be finished. Carried for invulnerability and long life, and for the adept a step toward becoming a weikza. The Burmese counterpart of Thai lek lai — but lek lai is fetched from a cave and a dat-lone is made in a fire.",
  "story_th": "สายปรอท (ปยะดา) ศึกษาการแปรธาตุเพื่อทำทองและเงินจากโลหะสามัญ ลูกที่หุงสำเร็จคือดั๊ตโลน เล่ากันว่าผู้ที่สำเร็จจะกลืนหรือถือลูกนี้ไว้ และไม่ตายอย่างคนธรรมดา รอพระศรีอาริย์ ชาวพม่าจำนวนมากถือว่าโบโบอองและโบมินกองยังอยู่",
  "story_en": "The mercury-path weikza study transmutation, producing gold and silver from common metals; the finished ball is the dat-lone. The tradition holds that the accomplished adept keeps or swallows the ball and does not die as others do, but withdraws to wait for Maitreya — which is how many Burmese speak of Bo Bo Aung and Bo Min Gaung today. Six paths are named in the Burmese article: mercury, iron, medicine, in, mantra and the spirit-infused blade.",
  "keeping_th": "ไม่มีผู้อยู่ ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง หมวดไทยยังไม่มีที่ให้ — ไม่ใช่ของธรรมชาติ ไม่ใช่ยันต์ ไม่ใช่พระ",
  "keeping_en": "Nobody home and nothing owed. The Thai class vocabulary leaves it unplaced: not a natural talisman (it is made), not a yantra object (no inscription), not a Buddha image. That refusal is the record."
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:vault-classes",
  "s:en-wiki-weikza",
  "s:en-wiki-bo-bo-aung",
  "s:my-wiki-weizzadhara",
  "s:th-wiki-lek-lai",
  "s:tradition"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "names.other_scripts": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:my-wiki-weizzadhara"
   },
   "origin": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:en-wiki-weikza"
   },
   "text.story_en": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:en-wiki-weikza",
    "note": "transmutation and paths cited; swallowing and waiting for Maitreya from en-wiki Bo Bo Aung and tradition"
   },
   "confusable_with": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:th-wiki-lek-lai",
    "note": "lek lai harvest story cited; dat-lone side tradition"
   },
   "market": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:catalog-db",
    "note": "no Thai listing title carries ลูกแก้วธาตุ, ดั๊ตโลน or เหล็กไหลพม่า"
   },
   "axes": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes",
    "note": "null: vocabulary refuses; see keeping_en"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "low",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-02",
 "class_facts": {
  "key": null,
  "term": "ยังไม่ชี้ขาด",
  "en": "left to a knower",
  "resident": null,
  "upkeep": null,
  "provenance_sensitivity": null,
  "definition": "The vault vocabulary does not place this kind; the refusal is recorded, not papered over."
 },
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   "key": "khong_kraphan",
   "term": "คงกระพัน",
   "roman": "khong kraphan",
   "en": "invulnerability to blades",
   "definition": "The body cannot be cut or pierced. Classically paired with ชาตรี in the martial compound คงกระพันชาตรี. Says nothing about firearms — that is มหาอุด."
  },
  {
   "key": "khlaeo_khlat",
   "term": "แคล้วคลาด",
   "roman": "khlaeo khlat",
   "en": "evasion, narrow escape",
   "definition": "Harm passes by — the accident happens to the next vehicle, the bullet goes wide, you left the building early. Distinct in kind from คงกระพัน: nothing strikes you at all, so nothing needs to be resisted."
  },
  {
   "key": "khum_khrong",
   "term": "คุ้มครอง",
   "roman": "khum khrong",
   "en": "general protection, watching over",
   "definition": "Unspecified guardianship. **A holding pen, not a category** — when a source says only คุ้มครอง it usually has not said which of the specific functions above it means. Treat its presence as a gap to close, not an answer."
  }
 ],
 "material_terms": [
  {
   "key": "nuea_loha",
   "term": "เนื้อโลหะ",
   "roman": "nuea loha",
   "en": "metal (unspecified)",
   "definition": "Metal, unspecified. Common in listings precisely because it commits to nothing. Recorded as its own term rather than resolved, because the vagueness is itself the datum — a seller who can name the alloy usually does."
  }
 ],
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "mm",
   "th": "พม่า · เมียนมา",
   "en": "Myanmar"
  }
 ],
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  "source": "commons",
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  "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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  "author": "Emily Khine",
  "credit": "Own work",
  "view": "other",
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  "en": {
   "catalogue": "Catalogue — checkable against the corpus (catalog.db, a transcribed treatise)",
   "cited": "Cited — a named external source, linked",
   "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the wider tradition, hedged",
   "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
   "field": "Field — someone stood there"
  },
  "th": {
   "catalogue": "จากคลัง",
   "cited": "อ้างอิงแหล่ง",
   "tradition": "ตามประเพณี",
   "inference": "อนุมาน",
   "field": "พบเห็นเอง"
  }
 }
}