Editing Thaton (section)

===Contemporary epigraphy===
The first undisputed mention of Thaton is in the 1479 [[Kalyani Inscriptions]], which were written in the [[Mon language#History|Middle Mon language]] and attributed to [[Dhammazedi]].<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 84 --> This inscription uses "Sudhuim",<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 84 --> which is the usual Mon form of the name.<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 79 --><ref name="Aung-Thwin 2005"/>{{rp|79, 84}}

Thaton is not mentioned before this, although other inscriptions from Bagan and Ava monarchs do mention places farther south.<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 83 --> Then in 1486, the name Sudhammapura appears in three Mon inscriptions.<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 84 --> There is one inscription purportedly dating to 1067 records the building of a temple by a king Manuho of Thaton, but based on linguistic analysis (for example, the spelling of certain words is more characteristic of later times than of Pagan times), Aung-Thwin says the inscription is likely from a later period.<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 109-10 --> (Even among scholars who are proponents of the idea that Thaton was a major capital at this time period, the 1067 inscription is also rejected for the same reasons, and they say it could be no earlier than the 1500s.)<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 105, 110 --><ref name="Aung-Thwin 2005"/>{{rp|83-4, 105, 109-10}}

The earliest dated inscriptions found near Thaton (but not mentioning it) are the Kyaik Talan and Kyaik Te inscriptions, which were made in 1098 under [[Kyanzittha]].<!-- Aung-Thwin 2005, p. 159, 161 --><ref name="Aung-Thwin 2005"/>{{rp|159, 161}} The two inscriptions were found at the Kyaik Talan and Kyaik Te stupas in [[Ayetthema]],<!-- Khin Myint Myint 2016, p. 6 --> on the northwest side of [[Kelasa Mountain]].<!-- Moore and San Win 2007, p. 215 --><ref name="Moore and San Win 2007">{{cite journal |last1=Moore |first1=Elizabeth |author2=San Win |title=The Gold Coast: Suvannabhumi? Lower Myanmar Walled Sites of the First Millennium A.D. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42928710 |journal=Asian Perspectives |volume=46 |number=1 |date=Spring 2007 |page=202-232 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |doi=10.1353/asi.2007.0007 |jstor=42928710 |s2cid=49343386 |language=en|url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{rp|215}} The inscriptions record the renovation of the stupas under Kyanzittha.<!-- Khin Myint Myint 2016, p. 6 --><ref>{{cite web |author1=Khin Myint Myint |title=Buddhism in Myanmar |via=University of Mandalay Open Access Repository |date=2016 |url=https://meral.edu.mm/records/841?community=um |publisher=Suratthani Rajabhat University |location=[[Surat Thani]]}}</ref>{{rp|6}}