# Mông Đức stela (C. 14), 776 Śaka Arlo Griffiths Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths Contributor: Arlo Griffiths Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00014 Repository: Campā (tfc-campa-epigraphy) File path: xml/DHARMA_INSCIC00014.xml Language: Sanskrit [Cam] Commit: 2026-09-19 07:34 (e13d61a), last modified 2026-09-16 06:32 (d2f72d3) ## Palaeographic description The lettering is characteristic of the ninth century CE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Edition 1. Śārdūlavikrīḍita ⟨1⟩ śrī gaṅgā[⏑⏑–⏑–⏑⏑⏑–––⏑–] ⟨2⟩ [–⏑]ya candrāñśasya dadhe pure sa [⏑⏑–––⏑] ⟨3⟩ [––⏑]sā rā[–]nādi[⏑]rā[⏑]nā [⏑⏑⏑–––⏑––] ⟨4⟩ [⏑⏓] [–]dārāya [⏑–⏑–] punar imā vikr[āntarudreśvaraḥ ∥] 2. Indravajrā [vikrā]⟨5⟩ntavarmmā hi narādhipaś śrīr yyo m[ū]rtt[i]mān śakra iva [⏑––] [⏓–⏑–] ⟨6⟩ kṣetram idaṁ viśālaṁ vikrāntarudrāya sa eva dadyāt ∥ sa Eva rājā śrī-vikr[āntavarm]ma-d[e]⟨7⟩vas sakalaparipūrṇṇahariṇāṅkadīptavaiḍūryyamuktāvalīlamvahāṭaka [5 ou 5 groupes si]⟨8⟩ndhutaragāmbhīryyadiṅmaṇḍalacchadanasitātapatrasandhārito jvalitataḍillatākana[ka, 3 ou 4 groupes]⟨9⟩ṇḍa[pad]marāgaratnabaddhakirīṭodarabandhahārakuṇḍalabharitamūrttisamupaśobhito nekaparijanasevito ⟨10⟩ brāhmaṇapurohitāgrāsanakṣatrānyanarapativr̥ṇdajuṣṭacaraṇāravindaḥ [environ 8 groupes]⟨11⟩devavarmmā vedāṅgagasūkṣmapraṇavāvasānaiḥ [3 groupes] suviśuddhajanmā puṣṭamūrttidhairyya [...] bhagavate⟨12⟩śrī-vikrāntarudreśvarāya sakalajagaddhitakāraṇāya trailokyagurave [saṁ]tāpātapaharaṇā[ya dyāvā]⟨13⟩-prathivyoḥ paramakīrttaye śrīmadīśvarayajñārthaṁ śivakṣetrīkrtaṁ dīrgha[12 ou 13 groupes kṣe]⟨14⟩travaram idaṁ kośāgamunibhiś śakarāje tad eva dattavān iti tad anu śrīvikrāntadevo pi bhaveśvarāya śrīde [2 ou 3 groupes]⟨15⟩m aṅkasannikr̥ṣṭam ubhayatra kīrttaye sa eva śubham adāt ∥ 3. Anuṣṭubh rudrakṣetram idaṁ khyātaṁ [pā]layan[t]o yatīśvare [svargaṁ yāntu] ⟨16⟩ harantas te patantu narakāvame || 4. Anuṣṭubh vr̥laḥkirāṭav[r̥]taṁ hi rudrakṣetram idaṁ mahat śrīma[tā 5 groupes] ⟨17⟩ dattaṁ vikrāntavarmmaṇā || ## Bibliography First edited by Abel Bergaigne. ### Primary [B] Bergaigne, Abel. 1893. Inscriptions sanscrites de Campā et du Cambodge. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale 27, 1re partie, [2e fascicule]. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. [URL]. Pages 231–237, item XXIV. ### Secondary Aymonier, Étienne. 1891. “Première étude sur les inscriptions tchames.” JA, pp. 5–86. [URL]. Pages 24–27. Finot, Louis. 1903. “Notes d’épigraphie, V : Pāṇḍuraṅga.” BEFEO 3, pp. 630–648. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1903.1260. [URL]. Page 633. Cœdès, George. 1908. “Inventaire des inscriptions du Champa et du Cambodge.” BEFEO 8, pp. 37–92. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1908.4180. [URL]. Page 41, item 14. Parmentier, Henri. 1909. Inventaire descriptif des monuments čams de l’Annam. Tome premier: Description des monuments. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. [URL]. Pages 75–76. Cœdès, George. 1923. “Liste générale des inscriptions du Champa et du Cambodge.” In: Listes générales des inscriptions et des monuments du Champa et du Cambodge. By George Cœdès & Henri Parmentier. Hanoi: Imprimerie d’Extrême-Orient, pp. 1–180. Pages 6–7, item 14. Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra. 1927. Ancient Indian colonies in the Far East, Vol. I: Champa. Punjab Oriental (Sanskrit) Series 16. Lahore: The Punjab Sanskrit Book Depot. [URL]. Book III, pages 71–74, item 30. Golzio, Karl-Heinz. 2004. Inscriptions of Campā: Based on the editions and translations of Abel Bergaigne, Étienne Aymonier, Louis Finot, Édouard Huber and other French scholars and of the work of R. C. Majumdar; newly presented, with minor corrections of texts and translations, together with calculations of given dates. Aachen: Shaker Verlag. Pages 56–58.