# K. 404. Stela from Phu Khiao Kao, 7th-8th centuries CE

Kunthea Chhom

Author of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00404

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00404.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Khmer]

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## Palaeographic description

The lettering is characteristic of the seventh-eighth centuries CE,
probably of Mon influence.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ⦿ puṇya-śreṣṭha-dharajaga[ddhi] ⟨2⟩
takarasvarggābahadharmmikapra⟨3⟩jñā-la⟨⟨ṅ⟩⟩karas-sakr̥ta-subuddhi ⟨4⟩
janīta-prajñā[.][.][.][.]oditena ⟨5⟩ śrijayasiṅghavarmma[ṇā] ⟨6⟩
(r)ājña-bala-śakti-br̥ddhi ⟨7⟩ [1+](pu)dānāprati-[2+] ⟨8⟩ na
tataprā[1+]dhāra[3+] ⟨9⟩ tena kr̥[1+]ta[1+]ṇa[2+] ⟨10⟩
prahlā(da?)-cuḍāma⟨11⟩ṇī ⦿

## Apparatus

⟨4⟩ janīta- ⬦ janita- GC. — ⟨4⟩ -prajñā[.][.][.][.]oditena ⬦
-prajñā[2+]oditena GC.

⟨6⟩ (r)ājña- ⬦ prajñā- GC.

⟨7⟩ [1+](pu)dānāprati- ⬦ [2+]dānaprati- GC.

⟨10⟩ prahlā(da?)- ⬦ pra[2+]- GC.

## Translation into French by Cœdès 1937–1966

⟨1–11⟩ Pratiquant les plus nobles vertus, bienfaiteur des créatures,
conduisant sur le chemin du ciel, observant la Loi, ayant pour ornement
la sagesse […] la sagesse résultant de ses bonnes actions et de sa bonne
intelligence, Śrī Jayasiṅghavarman ⟨doué de⟩ sagesse, de force, de
puissance, de prospérité a fait […] Cūḍāmaṇi.

## Commentary

⟨11⟩ There circle seems to be followed by a double daṇḍa with a spiral
on the top.

## Bibliography

Edited by George Cœdès (1937–1966, vol. 7, p. 73) with a French
translation, re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom from the estampages EFEO n.
443 and EFEO n. 1333.

### Primary

[GC] Cœdès, George. 1937–1966. Inscriptions du Cambodge I-VIII.
Collection de textes et documents sur l’Indochine 3. Hanoi; Paris:
Imprimerie d’Extrême-Orient. Volume 7, page 73.