# K. 299.10. Eastern section of southern gallery of Angkor Wat (the hell
and heaven gallery), 12th century

Kunthea Chhom

Author of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00299-10

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00299-10.xml

Language: Old Khmer [Khmer]

Commit: 2026-11-14 14:32 (f68ac07), last modified 2026-10-22 14:47
(e1137ca)

## Palaeographic description

The lettering is characteristic of the twelfth century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ⦿nirucchvāsa ꩜ qnak ta mūḍha ꩜ pracanda ꩜ paṁpat· viśvāsa ꩜
saṁlāp(·) strī ꩜ [sa]vāla .

## Translation into French by Cœdès 1911

⟨1⟩ Nirucchvāsa. Les fous, les violents, ceux qui abusent (?) de la
confiance, ceux qui tuent les femmes et les enfants.

## Translation into French by Pou 2001

⟨1⟩ "Sans souffle de vie". Les gens qui sont égarés, violents, qui
detruisent la confiance [chez les autres], qui tuent les femmes ... les
enfants.

## Translation by Pou 2001

⟨1⟩ "Breathless". People who are foolish, violent, who destroy [other
people’s] confidence, who kill women ... children.

## Bibliography

First edited by George Cœdès (1911, p. 205) with a French translation;
re-edited by Saveros Pou (2001, pp. 157–159) with French and English
translation. Re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom based on EFEO estampage n.
681.

### Primary

[GC] Cœdès, George. 1911. “Les bas-reliefs d’Angkor-Vat.” BCAI, pp.
170–220. [URL]. Page 205.

[SP] Pou, Saveros. 2001. Nouvelles inscriptions du Cambodge, volumes II
et III. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient. [URL]. Pages 157–159.

### Secondary

[EA] Aymonier, Étienne. 1883. “Quelques notions sur les inscriptions en
vieux khmêr.” JA 8 (1), pp. 441–505. [URL]. Pages 441–505.