Slab from Phước Hà (C. 274), ca. 8th century CE

Editor: Arlo Griffiths.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00274.

Hand description:

Script compatible with an 8th-century dating.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Campa (tfc-campa-epigraphy).

Version: 2025-06-19 09:59 (b626873), last modified 2025-04-21 12:27 (39e8ff2).

I. Aśvalalita

⟨1⟩ jayati yatīśvaras sura-surāri-(kinna)ra-nar(e)śvarārccita-padaḥ

padam acalaṅ gatvā śava-malāt su⟨2⟩somya-hr̥dayo(dayoda?)ya-paraḥ

(jaraṣakr̥?)ta-smara-smara-sutā sutāsv api (divena?) niścala-matir

mmati-maha⟨3⟩-nāma-nīca-ma(t)inā (hanāhita-daśāvalī?)-daśabalaḥ ||

tasyaiva bhagavatas savāsanānyanti nir-ava⟨4⟩śeṣāṣṭa-navaty-a(sukhayanaṁ?) kṣamā-dakṣa-yakṣa-yajñenādy-acintyātma-bhāvasya suvidita-sakalā(nanta)⟨5⟩-jñeya-svabhāvasya bahir-antar-bbandha-nairapaddhasya sarvvatra sa(mā)nuruddhasya parahita-vidhānārttha-prabuddhasya ⟨6⟩ samyak-saṁbuddhasya traidhātuka-nikhila-kleśāsana-śāsana-suniviṣṭākliṣṭa-manaḥ-prasāda-tvat-pratisamam a⟨7⟩nuparata-vaiśākhādy-anādy-anavadya-dharmma-karmmāripu-narābhedya-varmmā śrī-dharmmarāja-mahārājādhirāja⟨8⟩-śrī-rudravarmmā śrī-campeśvaro gārggya-maharṣi-manu-prasiddhena vidhinā suvihita-saṁjñāpanā kāny ucchra(ya)⟨9⟩sarūpa Iva dharmmaś śrī-dhar(mma-rūpo?) vaśa-vaiśikākrośaka-loka-lokika-lokārauṅkāra-vaṣaṭkāra-kumāra-kārttikeyā(nivanai?) ⟨10⟩ śrīmati śilātale ⟨’⟩sminn atipraśastām imāṁ praśastim apagata-hr̥l-lekho lekhitavān· <ddandaTailRight>

Āha ca ~

II. Anuṣṭubh

⟨11⟩ pāvanyaś śaila-rāje ⟨’⟩smin

santy antarvvaṇa-devatāḥ

kīrttī rakṣantu nas sarvvā

dharmma-rūpe ⟨’⟩sya bhūpateḥ

⟨12⟩ (vi?)haran tatra (su)dharmmo lekhitavān nāma yasya dr̥ḍha-mūlā svāmi-caraṇānukūlye bhakti(r ggatiś ca?) ⟨13⟩ (bhu/sa)ktiś ca sa hi bālyāt prabhr̥ty eva svāminaś caraṇa-paricāraṇa-sthira-(tapa?)⟨14⟩ś caraṇan (dhāvanturbbhuve?) sarvveṣūccāvaceṣu karmmasu niyukto ⟨’⟩bhūt· <ddandaTailRight>

Translation by Arlo Griffiths

I

The most superior ascetic (yatīśvaraḥ) called Matimaha, whose feet were worshipped by gods, demons, (the mythical beings called) kinnaras and kings, and whose mind was unwavering …, having gone from the impurity of the corpse to liberation (padam acalaṁ gatvā), is superior over all (jayati).

Commentary

Bibliography

Unpublished inscription edited by Arlo Griffiths, with an English translation.

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