Cliff face at Lệ Cam (C. 126), 977 Śaka

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr).

Contributor: Arlo Griffiths (argr).

Palaeographic description: The lettering is characteristic of the eleventh century CE.

Languages: Old Cham (ocm) [Cam (cam)], Sanskrit (san) [Cam (cam)].

Repository: Campa (tfc-campa-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00126.

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSCIC00126.xml.

Version: 2026-07-17 15:37 (56b2f49), last modified 2026-07-17 15:37 (56b2f49).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ∥ ✤ ∥ Om̐ namaś śivāya ∥| ✤ ∥

⟨2⟩ ∥ śakarāja 977 ∥ kāla yām̃ po ku śrī parameśvaravarmmadeva punaḥ guhā niy·

Translation

Om Homage to Śiva! ⟨Year of the⟩ Śaka king: 977. ⟨This was⟩ when his majesty Śrī Parameśvaravarmadeva repaired this cave.

Bibliography

First edited in Finot 1915. Re-edited here from Finot’s plate and from my photos made in 2010.

Primary

Finot, Louis. 1915. “Notes d’épigraphie, XV : Les inscriptions de Jaya Parameçvaravarman I roi du Champa.” BEFEO 15 (2), pp. 39–52. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1915.5229. [URL]. Pages 42–43, 49, plate 7A.

Secondary

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]. Page 154, item 56.

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 130–131.

Schweyer, Anne-Valérie. 2009. “Les royaumes du pays cam dans la seconde moitié du XIe siècle.” Péninsule 59, pp. 17–48. Page 35.

Griffiths, Arlo, Amandine Lepoutre, William Aelred Southworth & Thành Phần. 2008–2009. “Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, III: Épigraphie du Campa 2009-2010: prospection sur le terrain, production d’estampages, supplément à l’inventaire.” BEFEO 95, pp. 435–497. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.2008.6118. [URL]. Pages 461–461, 469, note 42.

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