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

Editor: Arlo Griffiths.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00126.

Hand description:

The lettering is characteristic of the eleventh century CE.

Languages: Old Cham, Sanskrit.

Repository: Campa (tfc-campa-epigraphy).

Version: 2025-05-27 10:41 (eb6ceac), last modified 2024-04-24 01:34 (b255bf1).

⟨1⟩ || ✤ || Om̐ namaś śivāya ||| ✤ ||

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

Translation by Arlo Griffiths

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 and 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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