Fragment of a stela from Phnom Bayang (K. 859), 9th century Śaka

Editors: Kunthea Chhom, George Cœdès.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00859.

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

Version: (9724a0f), last modified (25c6f3e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […] [śrī]mad-utpannakeśānaṁ namat[.][.] […] ⟨2⟩ […] [.]ānamrarājasya […] ⟨3⟩ […] [śrīya]śovarm[m]anāmeti […]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ [.]ānamrarājasya ⬦ nanamrarājasya GC.

Commentary

The script of this inscription is comparable to that of K. 854 and K. 863.

The space dividing the text in two columns indicates that the text is composed in verse, probably in Anuṣṭubh metre.

Utpannakeśāna mentioned in line 1 is the name of the main deity of Phnom Bayang and Yaśovarmman in line 3 is that of the king ruling in Angkor in the late 9th century CE.

Bibliography

First edited by George Cœdès (1937–1966, vol. 1, p. 259) without translation; re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom based on the estampage EFEO n. 1111.

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 1, page 259.