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              <p rend="stanza" n="1">Conseiller, il excellait dans les conseils et autres [fonctions], [docteur,] dans la connaissance des doctrines ; sujet, il savait procurer à son souverain tous les bonheurs.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="2">"Śrī amoureuse a fatigué mon bien-aimé !" C'est dans cette pensée, semble-t-il, que Bhāratī, sans jalousie, lui fit boire le nectar des śāstras.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="3"> II reçut de son souverain un palanquin, une coupe, une épée, une aiguière, un grand vase à boire, une ceinture, [le tout] en or, un éventail en plumes de paon et d'autres insignes.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="4">Ayant sa propre dévotion affermie ..., il a érigé, pour la joie des fidèles, Viṣṇu sous le nom de Śrī Pundarīkākṣa.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="5">Et il a prononcé cette parole, lui, sage comme Vācaspati, habile dans les règles morales, inébranlable dans la pratique des belles actions :</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="6">"Ici Śrī Puṇḍarākākṣa doit être protégé par ceux qui aspirent au mérite spirituel. Qu'ils réfléchissent à cette vérité : celui qui protège le Dharma est protégé par lui.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="7">"Ceux qui enlèveront ici à Hari ce qui lui a été donné par fondation, esclaves, etc., cuiront dans l'Avīci et les autres enfers aussi longtemps que dureront le soleil et la lune.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="8">"Les gens de bien, désireux de bonnes œuvres, qui protégeront toujours ce qui appartient à ce dieu [iront] au séjour de Visnu."</p>
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           <p>This inscription may be the continuation of the inscription from the Buddhist terrace of Angkor Thom <ref target="DHARMA_INSCIK00643.xml">K. 643</ref>.</p>
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          <p>Edited by Louis Finot (<bibl rend="omitname"><ptr target="bib:Finot1932_01"/><citedRange unit="page">2-4</citedRange></bibl>) with a French translation; re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom from the estampage EFEO n. 288. </p>
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