# K. 863. Fragment of a stela from Phnom Bayang, 9th century Śaka

Kunthea Chhom

Author of digital edition: Kunthea Chhom

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00863

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSCIK00863.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Khmer]

Commit: 2026-11-14 14:32 (f68ac07), last modified 2026-09-17 01:54
(2c24a58)

## Palaeographic description

The lettering is characteristic of the tenth century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […](m ī)śāṅghri_bhaktyā codi[…] ⟨2⟩ […](ta)patrādi nivedane ⫽ _
dattapatrādi[…] ⟨3⟩ […]Iti prārambhayatpānā_v īśvarāśrama[…] ⟨4⟩
[…]nagamahasvapūritam· _ pustakābh[…] ⟨5⟩ […]tasyaiva poṣaṇārthan nu _
vidadhe[…] ⟨6⟩ […]gaja-go-mahīṣānvitān· ⫽ _ kapittham[…] ⟨7⟩ […]_d
urvvīśvara[…]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (m ī)śāṅghri ⬦ […]śāṅghri GC.

⟨2⟩ (ta)patrādi nivedane ⬦ napatrādini vedane GC.

⟨6⟩ gaja-go-mahīṣānvitān· ⬦ gaja-go-mahīṣānitān· GC.

## Translation

⟨1⟩ […] by the devotion toward the feet of Śiva […].

⟨3⟩ […] Īśvarāśrama […].

⟨5–6⟩ […] for the maintenance of this ⟨āśrama⟩ […] ⟨he ?⟩ gave […] along
with elephants, cows and buffaloes […].

## Commentary

The script of this inscription is comparable to that of K. 854 and K. K.
859.

## Bibliography

First edited by George Cœdès (1937, pp. 266–267) without translation;
re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom based on the estampage EFEO n. 1115.

### 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. Pages 266–267.