# K. 755. Pedestal of a Buddha statue of Vat Chnah, 6th century śaka

Kunthea Chhom

Author of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00755

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00755.xml

Language: Old Khmer [Khmer]

Commit: 2026-11-14 14:32 (f68ac07), last modified 2026-09-17 01:54
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## Palaeographic description

The lettering is characteristic of the seventh century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […] ku stoṅ· I kon ⟨ku⟩ ku cān· I ku kaṁno I kon ku ku juṅ· kloñ· I
va tkir· I ku tak·tek· I ku yi Āy· I ku ptoy· I va kandin· I ku kaṁpoñ·
I kon ku va (saĀ)p· I ku Androk· […] ⟨2⟩ […]rā I kon ku ku klapit· I cau
ku ku Aṁpic· I ku tyeṅ· I ku vaḥ jin· kon ku va kantyar· I va tvau I gi
neḥ ti roḥ seṅ· kñuṁ vraḥ han· ta kñuṁ vihār· […]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kon ⟨ku⟩ ku cān· ⬦ kon ku cān· GC. — ⟨1⟩ kon ku ku juṅ· ⬦ kon ku
juṅ· GC.

⟨2⟩ kon ku ku klapit· ⬦ kon ku klapit· GC. — ⟨2⟩ vraḥ han· ta ⬦ vraḥ
h[2×] ta GC • The reading han· is doubtful; the term is a hapax.

## Translation

⟨1–2⟩ […] Ku Ston, her daughter ⟨namely⟩ Ku Cān; Ku Kaṁno, her daughter
⟨namely⟩ Ku Juṅ Kloñ; Va Tkir; Ku Tak Tek; Ku Yi Āy; Ku Ptoy; Va Kandin;
Ku Kaṁpoñ, her son ⟨namely⟩ Va SĀp; Ku Androk; […]; her daughter
⟨namely⟩ Ku Klapit; her grand-daughter Ku Aṁpic; Ku Tyeṅ; Ku Vaḥ Jin,
her son ⟨namely⟩ Va Kantyar; Va Tvau. This is … the servants of the god
… the servants of the monastery.

## Bibliography

First edited by George Cœdès (1954, p. 55) without translation;
re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom from the estampage EFEO n.953 and the
photos of the stone AMPP 001011-001019.

### Primary

[GC] Cœdès, George. 1954. Inscriptions du Cambodge, volume VI.
Collection de textes et documents sur l’Indochine 3.6. Hanoi, Paris:
École française d’Extrême-Orient. Page 55.