# Đồng Dương doorjamb (C. 68), ca. 10th century CE

Arlo Griffiths

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths

Contributor: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00068

Repository: Campā (tfc-campa-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSCIC00068.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Cam]

Commit: 2026-09-19 07:34 (e13d61a), last modified 2026-09-16 06:32
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## Palaeographic description

The lettering is characteristic of the tenth century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sarvvā(k)āla-kṣetraṁ ⟨2⟩ ṅauk·-laṅā-kṣetraṁ

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sarvvā(k)āla-- ⬦ sarvvaṁ kāla- F • It is true that an anusvāra seems
to be present on rvvā but no meaning is transparent in case we assume a
declined form sarvvāṁ (accusative singular feminine) before kālakṣetraṁ.
An alternative would be to assume that the rather clear ā marker is an
error and then we arrive back at Finot’s reading sarvvaṁ.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Field for everything unseasonable (? sarva-akāla).

⟨2⟩ Upper sesame field.

## Translation into French by Finot 1904

Tout le champ Kāla, le champ de sésame Ṅauk.

## Commentary

Similar lists of names of fields formulated in Sanskrit but
incorporating Old Cham elements are found in C. 66, stanzas XLIX–LI; C.
138, face B, lines 7–9; C. 216, face b. In view of the uncertainties of
reading exposed in the apparatus, the interpretation of the meaning of
the first line is very tentative.

## Bibliography

Published with eye-copy by Finot (1904), whence translated into English
by Golzio (2004). Re-redited here by Arlo Griffiths based on EFEO
estampage 281.

### Primary

[F] Finot, Louis. 1904. “Notes d’épigraphie, VI : Inscriptions du Quang
Nam.” BEFEO 4, pp. 83–115. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1904.1296. [URL]. Pages
112–113, item IV.

### Secondary

Parmentier, Henri. 1903. “Notes sur les fouilles du sanctuaire de Đồng
Dương.” Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 3, pp. 80–85.
DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1903.1195. [URL]. Page 85.

Parmentier, Henri. 1909. Inventaire descriptif des monuments čams de
l’Annam. Tome premier: Description des monuments. Paris: Imprimerie
nationale. [URL]. Page 450.

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. Page 143.