# K. 429. Pedestal from Phnom Sambok or Phnom Pros, 6th century Śaka

Kunthea Chhom and Dominique Soutif

Authors of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom, Dominique Soutif

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00429

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00429.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Khmer]

Commit: 2026-11-09 14:46 (16691b9), last modified 2026-09-17 01:54
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## Palaeographic description

The lettering is characteristic of the seventh century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ cintyāpara ⟨2⟩ gurvvarthāya [.][.] ⟨3⟩ ghr̥tasnava ⟨4⟩ ravise

## Translation into French by Finot 1912

⟨1–4⟩ […] au-dessus de tout ce qu’on peut imaginer[…] à l’attention de
son maître[…] du feu[…] le soleil[…].

## Commentary

Cette inscription consiste en 4 lignes tronquées.

The term ravise in line 4 can also be read so so[ma].

## Bibliography

First edited by Louis Finot (1912, p. 183) with a French translation;
reedited here by Dominique Soutif.

### Primary

[LF] Finot, Louis. 1912. “Notes d’archéologie cambodgienne, I: Nouvelles
inscriptions cambodgiennes; II: Deux bas-reliefs d’Angkor Vat.” BCAI 12,
pp. 5–15, 183–194. Page 183.