# Buddha from Tuol prah that (K. 820), 7th century CE

Kunthea Chhom and Arlo Griffiths

Authors of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom, Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00820

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00820.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [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. Āryā

⟨1⟩ ye dhammā hetu-prabhavā _ tesaṁ hetuṁ tathāgato Avaca
⟨2⟩ tesañ ca yo nirodho _ Evaṁ-vādī mahā-samano

## Translation by Skilling 2019

1.

The states arisen from a cause / Their cause the Tathāgata proclaims, /
As well as their cessation: This is the teaching of the Great Ascetic.

## Translation into French by Cœdès 1937–1966

Les conditions qui proviennent d’une cause, d’elles le Tathāgata a dit
la cause, d’elles aussi ce qui est la suppression. Telle est la doctrine
du Grand Ascète.

## Commentary

The French translation is c.

## Bibliography

Edited by George Cœdès (1937–1966, vol. 7, p. 108) with a French
translation cited from Auguste Barth in Fournereau 1895–1908, vol. 1, p.
85; re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom & Arlo Griffiths from estampage EFEO
n. 1052.

### Primary

[siglum] 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 7, page 108.

### Secondary

Dupont, Pierre. 1955. La statuaire préangkorienne. Artibus Asiae,
Supplementum 15. Ascona: Artibus Asiae. [URL]. Pages 190–210, plates XLV
B, XLVI C.

Skilling, Peter. [2542 BE] 1999. “A Buddhist inscription from Go Xoai,
southern Vietnam and notes towards a classification of ye dharmā
inscriptions.” In: 80 pi satrachan doctor prasoet na nakhon: ruam
botkhwam wichakan dan charuek lae ekkasan boran [80 years: A collection
of articles on epigraphy and ancient documents published on the occasion
of the celebration of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Prasert Na Nagara].
Bangkok: Private Publication, pp. 171–187. Page 173, note 12.