Lintel in Mỹ Sơn group A (C. 281), 7th century CE

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Salomé Pichon (sapi).

Palaeographic description: Elegantly slanting script typical of the inscriptions of Prakāśadharman-Vikrāntavarman (cf. Goodall and Griffiths 2013).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Cam (cam)].

Repository: Campa (tfc-campa-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00281.

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSCIC00281.xml.

Version: 2026-04-17 14:17 (3e0b233), last modified 2026-04-12 01:32 (0ffb1b5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-śarvvāṇyā mahādevyā śārvvaṁ maṇimayaṁ sadā yat sva-bhaktyārccita-liṅgaṁ tat stheyād ā bhuvas sthiteḥ ∥

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ śrī-śarvvāṇyā • Cf. śrī-śarvvāṇyāṁ in C. 96 (st. XXIII). — ⟨1⟩ ā bhuvas sthiteḥ • We find stheyād ā bhuvanasthiter in C. 96 (st. XXX) and stheyād ā bhuvanasthiteḥ in C. 97, but the present expression is known from K. 1352 (st. IV).

Translation

The crystalline liṅga of Śarva (i.e. Śiva) forever venerated here with her own devotion by the queen Śrī Śarvāṇī, may it remain as long as the earth remains!

Bibliography

Previously unpublished inscription edited here by Arlo Griffiths and Salomé Pichon, based on visual documentation shared by Nguyễn Văn Thọ.

Secondary

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.

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