K. 432. Stela from Vat Traleng Keng, 9th century Śaka

Author of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom (kuch).

Palaeographic description: The lettering is characteristic of the ninth-tenth century CE.

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Khmer (khmer)].

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00432.

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00432.xml.

Version: 2026-08-14 16:06 (fd6f571), last modified 2026-07-17 15:43 (64a9c36).

Edition

⟨1⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ vande tathāgataṁ yasya ⟨Column b⟩ = = = = ⏑ [te]jasā
⟨2⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ [ji]tvā nu māratimira ⟨Column b⟩ = = = = varāyitam ⫽
⟨3⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ [na]mo ratnatrayā - = ⟨Column b⟩ = = = t prāk trimūrttidhr̥k
⟨4⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ = = dārtham ihaloke ⟨Column b⟩ = = g jñānena saṁyama[ḥ] ⫽
⟨5⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ [ca]ndrarūpāṅgadīptaśrī⟨Column b⟩ś śrīyaśovarmmabhūpa[tiḥ]
⟨6⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ [va]bhūva bhūbhr̥dunmauli ⟨Column b⟩ -maṇitārāvirañjitaḥ ⫽
⟨7⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ Umāptau kāmadahaṇā ⟨Column b⟩ -nayo nu parameśvaraḥ
⟨8⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ tatkāntiṁ niravadyāṅgaṁ ⟨Column b⟩ yaṁ svamūrttiṁ nyaveśayat ⫽
⟨9⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ [A]saṁkhyādhvaradhūmālī ⟨Column b⟩ -vitānaṁ vitatāna yaḥ
⟨10⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ śaṅke śatamakhasparddhī ⟨Column b⟩ bhānumārgāgniveśmani ⫽
⟨11⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ yaś śaṅkarādirūpāṇi ⟨Column b⟩ śivaliṅgāny atiṣṭhipat
⟨12⟩  ⟨Column a⟩ ====-++= ⟨Column b⟩ ====-+-= ⫽

Translation into French by Cœdès 1942

Je salue le Tathāgata dont l’éclat, ayant vaincu l’obscurité de Māra, a dissipé ...

Hommage au Triratna ... autrefois, assumant trois formes, restreint en ce monde par la connaissance ...

Il y eut un roi Śrī Yaśovarman, dont la Fortune était éclairée par son corps ayant l’aspect de la lune [ou : par (8) aṅga, (1) forme, (1) lune], et qui était illuminé par ces étoiles que sont les joyaux sur les diadèmes des rois.

ayant, au moment où il s’unissait à Umā, commis la faute de brûler Kāma, Parameśvara créa ce roi à son image, avec la beauté irréprochable de Kāma.

C’est, semble-t-il, pour rivaliser avec (Indra) le dieu aux cent sacrifices que, dans cette maison du feu qu’est le ciel, il a répandu les flots de fumée d’innombrables sacrifices.

Il érigea des images de Śaṅkara, et autres dieux, des liṅga de Śiva ...

Bibliography

Edited by George Cœdès (1942, pp. 119–120) with a French translation, re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom from the estampage EFEO n. 189.

Primary

[GC] Cœdès, George. 1942. Inscriptions du Cambodge, volume II. Collection de textes et documents sur l’Indochine 3. Hanoi: École française d’Extrême-Orient. Pages 119–120.

Secondary

[RM] Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra. 1953. Inscriptions of Kambuja. The Asiatic Society Monograph Series 8. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society. [URL]. Pages 576–577.

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