Inscription for installation of liṅga by Jāhnavī, Yajñavarāha’s sister, at Banteay Srei (K. 574)

Editors: Dominic Goodall, Chloé Chollet.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00574.

Summary: In one anuṣṭubh verses, this inscription records the installation of a liṅga by Jāhnavī, sister of Yajñāvarāha, in the southern tower of the temple-complex of Banteay Srei.

Hand description:

Two lines engraved on the southern doorjamb of the southern sanctuary-tower of the complex of Banteay Srei.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

Version: (71863cc), last modified (25c6f3e).

Edition

I. Anuṣṭubh

⟨3⟩ tasya yajñavarāhasya

1

jāhnavīti yavīyasī |

2

⟨4⟩ svasā saṁsthāpayām āsa

3

bhaktyā liṅgam ihaiśvaram ||

4

Apparatus

Translation into French

(1) Jāhnavī, sœur cadette de Yajñavarāha, a érigé pieusement ici un liṅga d’Īśvara.

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