Pedestal from Dưỡng Mông, 7th century CE

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Dominic Goodall.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00136.

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Campa (tfc-campa-epigraphy).

Version: (0d8960e), last modified (5e48e58).

Edition

⟨1⟩ Idaṁ bhagavata(ḥ) puruṣottamasya viṣṇor anādi-nidhanasyāśeṣa-bhuvana⟨2⟩guroḥ pūjā-sthānam· śrī-prakāśadharmmaṇā kāritam· || <gomūtraFinal>

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ -sthānam· ⬦ °sthānaṁ Huber 1911.

Translation by Dominic Goodall and Arlo Griffiths

This place of worship (pūjā-sthāna)1 of Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Man (puruṣottama), without beginning or end, who is the teacher of all worlds, has been made to the order of Śrī Prakāśadharman.

Commentary

The inscription is in prose. It seems to be the only prose inscription issued under Vikrāntavarman-Prakāśadharman. The epithets of Viṣṇu seen here may he compared to those seen in C. 173.

Bibliography

First published, with French translation, in Huber 1911; whence, with English translation, in Majumdar 1985; whence Golzio 2004. Re-edited from the inked EFEO estampage, with new translation, in Goodall and Griffiths 2013, p. 429, whence the present edition.

Primary

[ECIC] Goodall, Dominic and Arlo Griffiths. 2013. “Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, V: The short foundation inscriptions of Prakāśadharman-Vikrāntavarman, king of Campā.” IIJ 56, pp. 419–440. DOI: 10.1163/15728536-13560307. Page 429.

Secondary

Finot, Louis. 1915. “Notes d’épigraphie, XIV : Les inscriptions du musée de Hanoi.” BEFEO 15 (2), pp. 1–38. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1915.5229. [URL]. Page 17.

Parmentier, Henri. 1919. “Catalogue du Musée Cam de Tourane.” BEFEO 19 (3), pp. 1–114. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1919.5651. [URL]. Page 587.

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]. Page 447.

Notes

  1. 1. This term occurs also in C. 79 and C. 173.