K. 400.1. Donation to the <foreign>saṅgha</foreign> by the king of Canāśa, 7th century Dominic Goodall Diwakar Acharya European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Pondicherry, Oxford DHARMA_INSCIK00400-1.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata In one sragdharā stanza, this inscription records the gift of buffalos, cows, slaves and possibly elephants to the Buddhist saṅgha by the king of Canāśa.

The lettering is fairly typical of seventh-century Khmer epigraphs, but the long descending strokes and the upadhmānīya make it seem older still. The upadhmānīya is particularly large and pronounced, having the form of a large circle containing a cross, raised above the consonant that it precedes.

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 various small edits; hyphenated the edition Updating toward the encoding template v03 Initial encoding of the text
lamba-stanyo mahiṣyaḫ pr̥thu-ghana-vapuṣo viṅśatir bbāla-vatsāḥ pañcāśad dhenavaś ca stana-bhara-guravaḫ puṣṭa-vatsānuyātāḥ dāsī-dāsā daśaiva pramudita-manaso 'ṣṭārddha-saṁkhyā dvipānāṁ dattās saṅghāya bodhi-praṇihita-manasā śrī-canāśeśvareṇa
lamba-stanyo tnye -guravaḫ -guravatḫ The t in Cœdès' reading seems to be a printer's error. -saṁkhyā dvipānāṁ -saṁkhya dattās dattas

Twenty female buffalos with pendant udders lamba-stanyaḥ and having baby calves, and fifty milch cows, heavy with the burden of their udders, followed by their well-nourished calves, ten female and male slaves, happy in their minds, and four elephants were given to the Buddhist community by the king of Canāśa, whose mind was fixed upon enlightenment.

Vingt bufflesses au corps large et replet, avec leurs bufflons, cinquante vaches alourdies par le poids de leurs mamelles avec leurs veaux bien gras, dix esclaves des deux sexes à l'esprit joyeux....... au nombre de quatre ont été donnés à la Communeauté par le souverain de Çri Canāça, ayant en vue l’Illumination.

Our English translation follows an interpretation different to that of Cœdès, since it takes into account some improvements to the edition.

Instead of lamba-stanyo one could equally substitute some similar feminine plural bahuvrīhi, such as kuṇḍa-stanyaḥ or br̥hat-stanyaḥ. Instead of Cœdès’ conjecture bbāla-[vatsāḥ], one might also conjecture bbāla-[vatyaḥ]. The masculine plural -guravaḫ, where we require a feminine, is perhaps a case of metrical considerations trumping grammatical ones.

First edited by Cœdès (), along with a later inscription inscribed on the same stone (K. 400.2), with translation into French and commentary. Re-edited here from EFEO estampage n. 1366 by Dominic Goodall and Diwakar Acharya.

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