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              <p rend="stanza" n="1">Vous protège le pollen de ces lotus : les pieds de Vāsudeva, causes de la naissance, du maintien et de la destruction des trois mondes !</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="2">Je salue Trivikrama, qui donne la stabilité à l'univers, et qui l'a marqué de ses trois pas pour signifier qu'il en est le seul maître.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="3">Hommage à Padmanāabha qui, par désir de créer l'univers, a [fait surgir] Brahmā du lotus de son nombril!</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="4">Hommage à l'Ennemi de Madhu, qui [séjourne] dans le lotus du cœur des yogins, [dont les pieds] lotus, effleurent de leur pollen les têtes des Suras et des Asuras !</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="5">Je salue le Dieu aux yeux de lotus, qui, comme pour ramener la terre disparue ... sur le mont Śrī Yaśodhara.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="6">Hommage à śiva dont les épaules blanches de cendre sont couvertes de tresses étincelantes, tel le Roi des Monts à la cime d'or, dont les flancs sont aimes des nuages d'automne.</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="7">Je salue le Grand Père (Brahmā) qui sourit également de ses quatre visages, comme pour prononcer en même temps une bénédiction adressée [aux quatre points cardinaux].</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="8">Vous protège la ... de Viṣṇu, humide d'ambroisie, comme pour delasser ... fatigué ...</p>
              <p rend="stanza" n="9">...[Umā] prenant la moitié du corps divin de Rudra comme dans le désir d'en obtenir la vue immédiate.</p>
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           <p>This inscription may be the beginning of the stela of Prasat Preah Pithu <ref target="DHARMA_INSCIK00543.xml">K. 543</ref>.</p>
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          <p>Edited by Louis Finot (<bibl rend="omitname"><ptr target="bib:Finot1929_01"/><citedRange unit="page">341-344</citedRange></bibl>) with a French translation; re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom from the estampage EFEO n. 710. </p>
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