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

Arlo Griffiths

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths

Contributor: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00126

Repository: Campā (tfc-campa-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSCIC00126.xml

Languages: Old Cham [Cam], 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 eleventh century CE.

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## 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.