Rock wall at Kbal Spean (K. 1345)

Editor: Chloé Chollet.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK01345.

Hand description:

Cursive angkorian script, typical of the 11th century CE.

Language: Old Khmer.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

Version: (c183482), last modified (a3919c1).

Edition

To the right of the zodiac diagram

⟨1⟩ 6 roca puṣya candra⟨2⟩-vāra Uttara-phalguni⟨3⟩-nakṣatra madhyā⟨4⟩hna yoga vraḥ liṅga

Inside the zodiac diagram

⟨Zone 0: Aries⟩⟦cau⟧⟨⟨bhau⟩⟩ sau

⟨Zone 2: Gemini⟩la ji

⟨Zone 7: Scorpio⟩

⟨Zone 8: Sagittarius⟩ca

⟨Zone 10: Aquarius⟩k(e)

⟨Zone 11: Pisces⟩Ā vu śu

Part 3

⟨1⟩ pūrva

Apparatus

Translation by Chloé Chollet

Translation into French by Chloé Chollet

(1–4) Au sixième jour de la quinzaine sombre, durant le mois de Puṣya, un lundi, au nakṣatra de uttaraphalguṇī, à midi (madhyāhna) [c’est alors qu’eût lieu] le yoga [auprès du] Saint Liṅga.

Commentary

See K. 260-1 for another example of zodiac diagram during the Angkorian period.

Bibliography

First edited in French and English by Chloé Chollet in her PhD thesis, from a photogrammetric model created by Adeline Levivier in May 2022. Based on previous reading by Gerdi Gerschheimer.