Donation of animals and people to Saṅgha by king of Canāśa (K. 400A)

Editors: Dominic Goodall, Diwakar Acharya.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00400a.

Summary: In one sragdhara stanza, this inscription records the gift of buffalos, cows, slaves and possibly elephants to the saṅgha by the king of Canāśa .

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

Version: 2024-10-15 14:26 (496f35a), last modified 2024-06-27 07:12 (25c6f3e).

I. Sragdharā

⟨1⟩ [lambasta]ny(o) mahiṣyaḫ pr̥thughanavapuṣo viṅśatir bbāla[vatsāḥ]

⟨2⟩ [pa]ñcāśad dhenavaś ca stanabharaguravaḫ puṣṭavatsānuyā[tāḥ]

⟨3⟩ [dā](s)īdāsā daśaiva pramuditamanaso ṣṭārddhasaṁkhyā (d)[v]i[pānāṁ]

⟨4⟩ dattās saṅghāya bodhipraṇihitamanasā śrīcanāśeśva[reṇa]

Apparatus

⟨1a⟩ [lambasta]nyo • Cœdès prints: - - t . nye

⟨1b⟩ stanabharaguravaḫ • Cœdès prints: stanabharaguravat+

⟨1c⟩ °saṁkhy¸ (d)[v]i[pānāṁ] • Cœdès prints: °saṁkhya ~ - -

⟨1d⟩ dattās • Cœdès prints: dattas

Translation by Dominic Goodall¹

I

Twenty female buffalos with pendant udders (lambastanyaḥ) and having baby calves, and fifty milch cows, heavy with the burden of their udders, followed by their well-nourished calves, ten female and male slaves, happy in their minds, and four elephants were given to the [Buddhist] community by the king of Canāśa, whose mind was fixed upon enlightenment.

Translation into French by Cœdès 1937–1966

I

Vingt bufflesses au corps large et replet, avec leurs bufflons, cinquante vaches alourdies par le poids de leurs mamelles avec leurs veaux bien gras, dix esclaves des deux sexes à l’esprit joyeux....... au nombre de quatre ont été donnés à la Communeauté par le souverain de Çri Canāça, ayant en vue l’Illumination.

Commentary

Instead of lambastanyo one could equally substitute some similar feminine plural bahuvrīhi, such as kuṇḍastanyaḥ or bṛhatstanyaḥ. Instead of Cœdès’ conjecture bbāla[vatsāḥ], one might also conjecture bbāla[vatyaḥ]. The masculine plural °guravaḫ, where we require a feminine, is perhaps a case of metrical considerations trumping grammatical ones. Cœdès appears to read °guravatḫ, but this is presumably just a typesetting error. The suppletion (d)[v]i[pānāṁ] is the suggestion of Diwakar Acharya.

Bibliography

First edited by Cœdès, along with a later inscription inscribed on the same stone that we shall call K. 400B, with translation into French and commentary (1937–1966). Re-edited here from EFEO estampage n. 1366 by Dominic Goodall and Diwakar Acharya.

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 6, pages 83–85.

Notes

1. Note that this English translation follows an interpretation different to that of Cœdès, since it takes into account some improvements to the edition.

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Donation of animals and people to Saṅgha by king of Canāśa (K. 400A)

Edition

I. Sragdharā

I. Sragdharā

Apparatus

Translation by Dominic Goodall1

I

Translation into French by Cœdès 1937–1966

I

Commentary

Bibliography

Primary

Notes

Translation by Dominic Goodall¹