# Po Dam slab (C. 246), 631 Śaka

Arlo Griffiths

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths

Contributor: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00246

Repository: Campā (tfc-campa-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSCIC00246.xml

Language: 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 eighth century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (s)vasti

1. Anuṣṭubh

kṣoṇī-bahni-rasāṅkite
śa(ka)-(va)r(ṣ)ārāmāśrite †
trige ⟨2⟩ phālguṇyasya site
sa śu⟨⟨kra⟩⟩divase ⟨’⟩(tha)

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ -(va)r(ṣ)ārāmāśrite • This reading is unmetrical and very uncertain
also for other reasons. The second akṣara looks more like rtha or rthā;
the first would seem to bear a repha or vowel marker (ā or ī).

## Translation

When the Śaka year had reached a halt (ārāma?) in (1) earth, (3) fires,
(6) flavors, in the waxing fortnight of Phalguṇa, on the third, a
Friday.

## Commentary

The inscription seems to form one almost complete stanza in the Anuṣṭubh
meter, the last syllable being entirely lost or never written. It
comprises only or almost exlusively a dating formula, of which I so far
understand only the chronogam (kṣoṇi-bahni-rasa ‘earth-fires-flavors’ =
1-3-6, so 631 Śaka) and the indication of the month and fortnight
(phālguṇyasya site ‘in the waxing fortnight of Phālguṇa’). Presumably
trige indicates the quanitième as ‘third’, in which case we land on
Thursday, February 6, 710 CE, one day off from the indication
śukradivase (Thursday) in the text.