# K. 789. Fragment of pedestal of Vat Baray, 6th-7th century Śaka

Kunthea Chhom

Author of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00789

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00789.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Khmer]

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## Palaeographic description

The lettering is characteristic of the seventh-eighth century CE.

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## Edition

1. Anuṣṭubh

⟨1⟩ [⏑⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]_
[⏓⏓] [bh]āgavataḥ kaviḥ_
thnalvnaḥpura-kule lavdha_
janmā hr̥t-stha-haris sadā ⫽

2. Anuṣṭubh

⟨2⟩ sa haṅso jñāna-śuddhātmā_-
nam anityaṁ vicintayan·_
prati tasmād dharau prādā_d
ghr̥ṭa-pātraṁ sadī[pakam· ⫽]

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ anityaṁ ⬦ anityam GC. — ⟨2⟩ sadī[pakam· ⫽] ⬦ sadī[pakam·] GC.

## Translation into French by Cœdès 1937–1966

1.

[…] le sage Bhāgavata, né dans la famille de la ville de Thnal Vnaḥ, le
cœur constamment dévoué à Hari,

2.

ce haṁsa réfléchissant continuellement sur l’impermanence de son moi
purifié par la connaissance, à cause de cela a donné à Hari un bol de
beurre fondu (avec une lampe?).

## Commentary

The expression sa haṅso in line 2 can be also understood as sahaṁso
meaning "with the haṁsa".

## Bibliography

Edited by George Cœdès (1937–1966, vol. 5, p. 60) with a French
translation; reedited here by Kunthea Chhom based on the estampage EFEO
n. 1015.

### Primary

[GC] Cœdès, George. 1937–1966. Inscriptions du Cambodge I-VIII.
Collection de textes et documents sur l’Indochine 3. Hanoi; Paris:
Imprimerie d’Extrême-Orient. Volume 5, page 60.