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

Arlo Griffiths and Salomé Pichon

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Salomé Pichon

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00281

Repository: Campā (tfc-campa-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSCIC00281.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Cam]

Commit: 2026-09-19 07:34 (e13d61a), last modified 2026-09-16 06:32
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## Palaeographic description

Elegantly slanting script typical of the inscriptions of
Prakāśadharman-Vikrāntavarman (cf. Goodall & Griffiths 2013).

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## Edition

1. Anuṣṭubh

⟨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

1.

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Previously unpublished inscription edited here by Arlo Griffiths and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 & 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.