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 "id": "in-yantra",
 "level": "kind",
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  "th": "ยันต์พม่า",
  "roman": "in",
  "en": "In (Burmese cabalistic square)",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "อินพม่า",
    "ยันต์อิน",
    "ตารางยันต์พม่า"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "inn",
    "in yantra",
    "in-saya work"
   ],
   "en": [
    "Burmese yantra",
    "Burmese magic square",
    "cabalistic square"
   ]
  },
  "other_scripts": {
   "my": "အင်း"
  }
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 "region": [
  "mm",
  "shan"
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 "axes": {
  "class": "yantra_wattu",
  "functions": [
   "khum_khrong",
   "khlaeo_khlat",
   "kan_phi",
   "metta_maha_niyom"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "pha_yan"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "none"
  ]
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 "form": {
  "type": "cloth",
  "shape_th": "ตารางสี่เหลี่ยมแบ่งเป็นช่อง ในช่องเป็นเลขและอักษรพม่า เขียนบนกระดาษหรือผ้า สลักบนโลหะหรือหิน หรือสักลงบนผิวหนัง",
  "shape_en": "A square grid of cells filled with Burmese numerals and letters. Drawn in ink on paper or cloth, engraved on metal or stone, or tattooed into the skin; nineteenth-century cotton shirts covered in grids survive in museum collections.",
  "size_mm": null,
  "wearable_th": "พับใส่กระเป๋า เย็บเป็นเสื้อ ใส่ตลับห้อยคอ หรือสักติดตัว",
  "wearable_en": "Folded in a pocket, sewn into a shirt, cased and hung at the neck, or carried permanently as a tattoo",
  "obverse_th": "ตารางเลขและอักษร บางแบบมีรูปสัตว์หรือกินรีประกอบ",
  "obverse_en": "The numbered grid; manuscript pattern-books add creatures such as kinnara and the three-headed peacock beside the squares",
  "reverse_th": "เรียบ",
  "reverse_en": "Plain",
  "notes_en": "The Thai record name ยันต์พม่า is a descriptive gloss; Thai speakers have no settled word for the in. The Burmese term is one syllable, အင်း, and the practitioner is an in-saya."
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 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "ตารางเลข",
   "en": "numbered grid whose cells are fixed by the recipient's birth date and time"
  },
  {
   "th": "อักษรพม่าและบาลี",
   "en": "Burmese and Pali syllables in the cells"
  },
  {
   "th": "กินรีและนกยูงสามหัว",
   "en": "kinnara and a three-headed peacock in a Burmese pattern-book of talismans and tattoos"
  }
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  "wat_th": "",
  "wat_en": "",
  "maker_th": "ครูอิน (in-saya) และวิชชา (weikza) สายอิน",
  "maker_en": "In-saya (square-masters) and weikza of the in path; the tradition holds the in path the most powerful beside the iron path",
  "era_th": "ไม่ระบุ",
  "era_en": "Undated; the weikza movement as now known is placed in the Konbaung period",
  "place_th": "พม่าและรัฐฉาน",
  "place_en": "Myanmar and Shan State",
  "first_attested": ""
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 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "เป็นตารางช่องเลข ไม่ใช่ลายเส้นและอักขระขอม — อักษรบอกถิ่น",
   "en": "A grid of numerals in Burmese script. Thai yantra carry Khom or Tham letters around figures; the script alone places the sheet",
   "source": "s:en-wiki-weikza",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "พบทั้งบนกระดาษ ผ้า โลหะ หิน และผิวหนัง",
   "en": "Drawn, engraved in stone or metal, or tattooed; the same square travels across media",
   "source": "s:en-wiki-weikza",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "ผูกกับวันเวลาเกิดของผู้รับ สองแผ่นชนิดเดียวกันจึงต่างกันได้",
   "en": "Cast from the recipient's birth date and time, so two squares of the same purpose need not match cell for cell",
   "source": "s:en-wiki-weikza",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "เสื้อผ้าฝ้ายเขียนตารางเต็มตัวแบบมัณฑะเลย์ศตวรรษที่ ๑๙ มีอยู่ในพิพิธภัณฑ์",
   "en": "Cotton shirts written edge to edge with squares, attributed to Mandalay in the nineteenth century, sit in the Textile Museum at George Washington University (Commons file titles below)",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "inference"
  },
  {
   "th": "การสักในพม่าเรียก โท้ะกวิน คนละสายกับสักยันต์ไทย",
   "en": "Burmese tattooing is htoe kwin; the yantra-tattooing article names it apart from Thai sak yant",
   "source": "s:en-wiki-yantra-tattooing",
   "tier": "cited"
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   "id": "pha-yan",
   "tell_th": "ผ้ายันต์ไทยเป็นลายเส้นกับอักขระขอม มักมีรูปพระหรือฤๅษีกลางผืน · อินพม่าเป็นตารางเลขอักษรพม่า",
   "tell_en": "Both are impersonal inscribed objects. A Thai pha yan draws lines and Khom letters round a Buddha, lersi or animal; a Burmese in is a numbered grid in Burmese script with no central figure."
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   "tell_th": "ยันต์ล้านนาใช้อักษรธรรม · อินใช้อักษรพม่าและเลขพม่า",
   "tell_en": "A Lanna yan is written in Tham script; an in is written in Burmese script and numerals. Shan cloths sit between the two, so read the letters."
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   "id": "takrut",
   "tell_th": "ตะกรุดม้วนเป็นหลอด · อินเป็นแผ่นแบนหรือรอยสัก",
   "tell_en": "A takrut is a rolled tube; an in stays flat on paper, cloth or skin."
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   "id": "khmer-yantra-cloth",
   "tell_th": "ผ้ายันต์เขมรเป็นอักขระขอมและรูป · อินเป็นตารางเลข",
   "tell_en": "Khmer yantra cloth is Khom letters and figures; the in is a grid of numbers."
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  "what_en": "The Burmese in: a cabalistic square whose cells hold numerals and letters, cast from the recipient's birth date and time by an in-saya or weikza of the in path. Drawn on paper or cloth, engraved on metal, or tattooed. The Burmese counterpart of the Thai yantra, with a grid where the Thai sheet has figures.",
  "story_th": "สายวิชชาพม่าแบ่งเป็นหลายทาง ทางอินคือทางของตารางเลข ถือกันว่าแรงที่สุดคู่กับทางเหล็ก เล่ากันว่าอินที่ขีดไว้บนบ้านหรือต้นไม้ทำให้ฟ้าผ่าได้ อินจึงเป็นทั้งของคุ้มครองและของที่ต้องเขียนให้ถูก",
  "story_en": "The weikza paths divide by medium: mercury, iron, medicine, and the in. The in path and the iron path are held the most powerful. The square is calculated from the wearer's birth date and time, and the tradition credits a square scratched on a house or tree with drawing lightning to it. That cuts both ways: an in protects, and an in written wrong is a hazard, which is why the square-master is a specialist.",
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    "note": "descriptive Thai gloss; no settled Thai term"
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  "upkeep": "none",
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