Stela from Vat Chumphon, Surin (inscription of Citrasena-Mahendravarman, K. 377), 6th century Śaka

Editors: Kunthea Chhom, George Cœdès, Gerdi Gerschheimer.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00377.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

Version: (b71d77d), last modified (25c6f3e).

Edition

I. Anuṣṭubh

⟨1⟩ ⟨Column a⟩[yaś] c[it]ra[s]e[nanāmā]bhū⟨Column b⟩t

a

kr̥tarājyābh[i]ṣecanaḥ

b

⟨Column c⟩sa [ś]r[īmahendravarmmeti]

c

⟨Column d⟩[paścān nāmāntaraṅ gataḥ]

d
II. Anuṣṭubh

⟨2⟩ ⟨Column a⟩vijitya nikhilān deśā⟨Column b⟩n

a

asmin deśe śilāmayaṁ

b

⟨Column c⟩vr̥ṣabhaṁ sthāpa[yām āsa]

c

⟨Column d⟩[sthitabhaktir vvr̥ṣadhvaje]

d

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [nanāmā][na][––] GC. — ⟨1⟩ [paścān nāmāntaraṅ gataḥ][⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑–] GC.

⟨2⟩ śilāmayaṁ ⬦ śilāmayam GC. — ⟨2⟩ [sthitabhaktir vvr̥ṣadhvaje][⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑–] GC.

Translation into French by Cœdès 1937–1966

I
Lui qui, [connu auparavant sous le nom de] Citrasena, fut après son sacre connu sous le nom de Śrī Mahendravarman […].
II
Ayant vaincu tous les pays, il a érigé dans ce pays un taureau de pierre […].

Translation by Kunthea Chhom

I
He, namely Citrasena, whose royal enthronement was conducted has received another name, viz. Śrī Mahendravarman.
II
Having defeated all the countries, [he], whose firm devotion was in the god with a bull banner [Śiva], installed in this country a stone bull.

Commentary

The restitutions in the two stanzas are based on K. 1280 and K. 1341.

There is probably another stanza before the stanza I as in K. 1280 and K. 1341: naptā śrīsārvvabhaumasya putraś śrīvīravarmmaṇaḥ śaktyānūnaẖ kaniṣṭho ’pi bhrātā śrībhavavarmmaṇaḥ

The estampage BN 328 (36) needs to be checked if there is another stanza after the stanza II. If there is one, it should be like the last stanza of K. 1289 which reads: [⏓⏓] [kā](ṭha)mayīm edhām apa(nī)ya purātanīm· vavandhopalavinyāsair ddamakan (d)amano d[v]iṣām·

Bibliography

First edited by George Cœdès (1937–1966, vol. 5, pp. 3–4) with a French translation; re-edited here by Gerdi Gerschheimer from the estampage BN 328 (36).

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 5, pages 3–4.