Lintel in Mỹ Sơn group A (C. 281), 7th century CE

Editors: Salomé Pichon, Arlo Griffiths.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIC00281.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Campa (tfc-campa-epigraphy).

Version: (a2d4f44), last modified (e3f014b).

Edition

I. Anuṣṭubh

⟨1⟩ śrī-śarvvāṇyā mahādevyā

a

śārvvaṁ maṇimayaṁ sadā

b

yat sva-bhaktyārccita-liṅgaṁ

c

tat stheyād ā bhuvas sthiteḥ||

d

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ śrī-śarvvāṇyā • Cf. śrī śarvvāṇyāṁ in C. 96 (st. XXIII). — ⟨1⟩ ā bhuvas sthiteḥ • We find stheyād ā bhuvanasthiter in C. 96 (st. XXX) and stheyād ā bhuvanasthiteḥ in C. 97, but the present expression is known from K. 1352 (st. IV).

Translation by Arlo Griffiths

I
The crystalline liṅga of Śarva (i.e. Śiva) forever venerated here with her own devotion by the queen Śrī Śarvāṇī, may it remain as long as the earth remains!

Commentary

Bibliography

Unpublished inscription freshly edited by Arlo Griffiths and Salomé Pichon, with an English translation.

Secondary

Goodall, Dominic and Arlo Griffiths. 2013. “Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, V: The short foundation inscriptions of Prakāśadharman-Vikrāntavarman, king of Campā.” IIJ 56, pp. 419–440. DOI: 10.1163/15728536-13560307. Pages 419–440.