# Fragment of a base for a statue or liṅga (C. 226), 9th century Śaka

Arlo Griffiths and Salomé Pichon

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Salomé Pichon

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00226

Repository: Campā (tfc-campa-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSCIC00226.xml

Language: Old Cham [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 10th/11th centuries CE

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […]ḥ kum̃ (vaniyaya) loy· bhāva si nr̥pati ⟨2⟩ […](v)iḥ yaḥ pauraḥ
yogiśvaraḥ bhikṣuka

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kum̃ ⬦ ku CIC.

## Translation by Griffiths et al. 2012

⟨1–2⟩ […] conditions which the king […] who are citizens, (Śaiva)
ascetics and (Buddhist) monks […].

## Bibliography

First edited with translation into English by Arlo Griffiths et al.
(2012, p. 271). The inscription is re-edited here by Arlo Griffiths &
Salomé Pichon based on the EFEO estampage n. 2111, and on photos.

### Primary

[CIC] Griffiths, Arlo, Amandine Lepoutre, William Aelred Southworth &
Thành Phần. 2012. Văn khắc Chămpa tại Bảo tàng Điêu khắc Chăm - Đà Nẵng
/ The inscriptions of Campā at the museum of Cham sculpture in Đà Nẵng.
Ho Chi Minh City; Hanoi: VNUHCM Publishing House and Center for
Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies University of Social Sciences and
Humanities Vietnam National University Hồ Chí Minh City; École française
d’Extrême-Orient. [URL]. Page 271.