Southern doorjamb of the northern sanctuary-tower of Prasat Banteay Srei (K. 573)
Editors: Dominic Goodall, Chloé Chollet.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00573.
Summary: In three anuṣṭubh verses, this inscription records the installation of an image of Viṣṇu by Pṛthivīpaṇḍita, a relative of Yajñāvarāha, in the northern tower of the temple-complex of Banteay Srei.
Hand description:
The lettering is characteristic of the tenth century CE.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).
Version: (8b4ab6d), last modified (1e059d0).
Edition
I. Anuṣṭubh
⟨Column a⟩jayati prathamaḥ puṃsāṁ
a⟨Column b⟩yasya śavdaguṇapadam·
b⟨2⟩ ⟨Column a⟩paramaṁ paramārthajñai⟨Column b⟩s
csandṛṣṭam iva madhyamam·||
dII. Anuṣṭubh
⟨3⟩ ⟨Column a⟩tasya yajñavarāhasya
a⟨Column b⟩saṁvandhī dharmmavāndhavaḥ
b⟨4⟩ ⟨Column a⟩Ākhyāṁ śrīpṛthivīndrādyāṁ
c⟨Column b⟩paṇḍitāntām avāpa yaḥ||
dIII. Anuṣṭubh
⟨5⟩ ⟨Column a⟩teneha sthāpitā viṣṇoḥ
a⟨Column b⟩pra[bha]viṣṇor iyan nimā
b⟨6⟩ ⟨Column a⟩bhaktyā bhāgavatāryyeṇa
c⟨Column b⟩sarvvaśāstrārthavedinā||
dTranslation into French by Finot et al. 1926
(1) Victoire au premier des Mâles, dont le séjour intermédiaire, caractérisé par le son, est [néanmoins] considéré comme suprême par les connaisseurs de la Suprême Réalité !
(2) Celui qui, parent et ami spirituel de Yajñavarāha, a reçu le nom de Śrī Pṛthivīndrapaṇḍita,
(3) Ce noble Bhāgavata, connaissant le sens de tous les śāstras, a érigé avec piété cette statue du tout-puissant Viṣṇu.
Bibliography
First edited by Louis Pinot (1926, pp. 70, 93, 107); reedited here by Dominic Goodall from the estampage EFEO n. 424.
Primary
[LF] Finot, Louis, Henri Parmentier and Victor Goloubew. 1926. Le temple d'Içvarapura (Bantāy Srĕi, Cambodge). Mémoires archéologiques 1. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient. [URL]. Pages 70, 93, 107.
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Commentary
Finot marks that he has supplied bhav, but the v of prabhaviṣṇor is visible on the EFEO estampage n. 424. For the restitution, cf. the use of the collocation viṣṇoḥ prabhaviṣṇoḥ in K. 445, st. 9, and K. 576, line 6.