# K. 861. Fragment of a stela from Phnom Bayang, 9th century

Kunthea Chhom

Author of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00861

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00861.xml

Language: Sanskrit [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 ninth century.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […]mra[…] ⟨2⟩ […]veda-nāmnātivr̥ddhe[na] […] ⟨3⟩
[…]śiva-pūjopakara(ṇ)[āni] […] ⟨4⟩ […][var]ddhayati yas te[…]

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ veda-nāmnātivr̥ddhe[na] ⬦ veda-nāmnātivr̥ddh GC.

## Translation

⟨2–3⟩ […] the cult objects for Śiva […] by the senior man called -veda
[…].

⟨4⟩ He who increases […].

## Bibliography

First edited by George Cœdès (1937, p. 260) without translation;
re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom based on the estampage EFEO n. 1113.

### Primary

[GC] Cœdès, George. 1937. Inscriptions du Cambodge, volume I. Collection
de textes et documents sur l’Indochine 3. Hanoi: École française
d’Extrême-Orient. Page 260.