# K. 299.9. 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_INSCIK00299-9

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00299-9.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⟩ ⦿yugmaparvvata ꩜ qnak ta qdeṅ· vadha vandha ꩜ cakni ꩜ qdeṅ· pīḍā
para thve duḥkhaṁ para nu qras· .

## Translation into French by Cœdès 1911

⟨1⟩ Yugmaparvvata. Les gens qui désirent le meurtre…, veulent du mal à
autrui, font du mal aux autres vivants (?).

## Translation into French by Pou 2001

⟨1⟩ "La montagne jumelée". Ceux qui ont l’audace de frapper, d’enchaîner
et de porter des coups [de poignard, couteau ...], l’audace de molester
les autres et de leur infliger des souffrances, afin d’assurer leur
[propre] existence.

## Translation by Pou 2001

⟨1⟩ "The twin-mount". People who dare to strike, chain and stab [other
people], who dare to annoy them, and cause them suffering in order to
ensure their own living.

## Bibliography

First edited by George Cœdès (1911, p. 205) with a French translation;
re-edited by Saveros Pou (2001, pp. 157–158) with French and English
translation. Re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom based on EFEO estampage n.
680.

### 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 157–158.

### Secondary

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