Stela of Wat Srah Kraing Banteay (K. 1412), 7th-8th century CE

Editors: Kunthea Chhom, Chhunteng Hun.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSCIK01412.

Language: Old Khmer.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

Version: (496f35a), last modified (d665ef6).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […] Āy· ka[ṁ]luṅ· Aṅgana vra[ḥ] Āy· sruk· ⟨2⟩ […] bhāśarmma pOn· mratāñña doṅ· poñ· knanna ⟨3⟩ […] [kanmo]y· mratāñña nnaṁ jann(a/e/o) noḥ sre Āy· vanagrā⟨4⟩[ma] […] [Ā]y· dakṣina mratāñ· Abhayavāsa yokka tī (d)u⟨5⟩[(k/ñ)·] […] [vrā]hmana ta śāntiya ta mratāñ Abhayavāsa v(i)ṅṅa ⟨6⟩ […] [devā]tideva Āy· Bhavāvāsa mratāñ· śambhu cas· mratā[ñ]· ⟨7⟩ […] [.]ā udyota (pa)ṁnos· paṁ(j)u(ḥ) mratāñ jñānabhakti mratā⟨8⟩[ñ·] […] [mratāñ·] Akṣara gu(p)· mratāñ· vidyāgupta mratāñ· (ma)[2+] ⟨9⟩ […]ñ· duk· sneṅ· tandaṅ· cracur· śvetachatrakanaka ⟨10⟩ […] [.]i devātideva Aṁvalla daṅṅa qnak· sruk· bhavāvāsa ⟨11⟩ […] [.](i) phoṅ·ṅa

Apparatus

⟨6⟩ mratā[ñ]· ⬦ mratā CH.

Translation by Kunthea Chhom

(1–4) […] in the precints of the sanctuary at the village of […] Bhāśarmma, younger brother of the mratāñ together with Poñ Knanna […] Mratāñ Nnaṁ Janna (Janne or Janno); that paddy field at Vanagrāma […] in the South.

(4–5) Mratāñ Abhayavāsa took the land to keep (or to purchase) […] the peaceful Brahmin back to Mratāñ Abhayavāsa.

(6–10) […] Devātideva at Bhavāvāsa, the senior Mratāñ Śambhu, Mratāñ […] Udyota, the religious who performed the atonement rituals, Mratāñ Jñānabhakti, Mratāñ […], Mratāñ Akṣara Gup, Mratāñ Vidyāgupta, Mratāñ […] kept the horns of animal, tandaṅ, cracur, white parasol with golden [handle], […] Devātideva and all the people of Bhavāvāsa […] also.

Bibliography

First edited by Chhunteng Hun (2018, pp. 19–30) in Roman and Khmer scripts with a Khmer translation; the variants of reading are taken from both the Roman and Khmer scripts; re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom from the photograph of the inscription and the estampage published in Chhunteng Hun’s edition.

Primary

[CH] Hun, Chhunteng. 2018. “សិលាចារឹកវត្តស្រះក្រាំងបន្ទាយ K. 1412 [Inscription of Wat Srah Kraing Banteay K. 1412].” Kambuja Suriyā, pp. 19–30. [URL]. Pages 19–30.