Stone disk of Chong Sa Chaeng (inscription of Citrasena-Mahendravarman, K. 969), 6th century Śaka
Editors: Kunthea Chhom, Bahadur Chand Chhabra, George Cœdès, Gerdi Gerschheimer.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK00969.
Hand description:
The akṣaras are characteristic of the seventh century.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).
Version: (a293d4f), last modified (25c6f3e).
Edition
I. Anuṣṭubh
⟨1⟩ yaś śrī(ma)hendravarmmeti
a⟨2⟩ mahendra Iva viśrutaḥ
b⟨3⟩ sa śaṅkarataṭākākhya⟨4⟩ñ
ccakhānemañ jalāśayam·
dApparatus
Translation into French by Cœdès 1937–1966
I
Celui qui a pour nom Śrī Mahendravarman, renommé comme Mahendra, a creusé ce bassin nommé Śaṅkarataṭāka.
Translation by Kunthea Chhom
I
He, namely (iti) Śrī Mahendravarman, [who was] famous like Mahendra, dug this pond called Śaṅkarataṭāka.
Bibliography
First Edited by Bahadur Chand Chhabra (1961, pp. 109–112); re-edited by George Cœdès (1937–1966, vol. 7, p. 152) with a French translation; re-edited here by Gerdi Gerschhiemer based on the estampages EFEO n. 1323 and EFEO n.1363 and the photograph in Chhabra’s edition as well as the verification on stone on 24 August 2006.
Primary
[BC] Chhabra, Bahadur Chand. 1961. “Bangkok museum stone inscription of mahendravarman.” JSS 49 (2), pp. 109–112. Pages 109–112.
[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 7, page 152.
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Commentary
(4) There is no trace of the supscript r; the reading of Cœdès (jalāśrayam) is a typo.