Rock inscription from Low Bay Samnom Island (K. 1289), 7th century CE
Editors: Kunthea Chhom, Sotheara Vong.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK01289.
Hand description:
The lettering is characteristic of the seventh century CE.
Language: Old Khmer.
Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).
Version: (a293d4f), last modified (41fd71f).
Edition
⟨1⟩ [4+] ta Ājñā braḥ tīrtha Ai kamratāṅ· pdai ⟨2⟩ [3+] (ka)roṁ gui ta jā (me) ti (Aiy·) qnak· sāmānya jaṇna (dah·) ⟨3⟩ [4+] ti Ai pūrva (ta vraḥ) kamratāṅ· Añ· ge dau kaṁluṅṅa [4+]
Translation by Vong 2011
(1) […] a command of the Lord Tirtha to the Lord of earth or surface below […]
(2) […] be […] to ordinary people, in the case […]
(3) […] be at the east of My Lord, they must be gone into […].
Bibliography
First edited by Vong Sotheara (2011, p. 32) with an English translation.
Primary
[VS] Vong, Sotheara. 2011. “Recently Discovered New Inscriptions from Pre-Angkorian Cambodia in Stung Treng Province.” Sangkumsastra Manussastra 76, pp. 26–40. Page 32.
[SP] Pou, Saveros. 2011. Nouvelles inscriptions du Cambodge, volume IV. Paris: L’Harmattan. [URL]. Pages 47–51.
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