Stela from Phnom Preah Lan (K. 657), 7th century CE

Stela from Phnom Preah Lan (K. 657), 7th century CE EpiDoc Encoding Kunthea Chhom intellectual authorship of edition George Cœdès DHARMA Siem Reap DHARMA_INSCIK00657

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The lettering is characteristic of the seventh century CE.

The project DHARMA has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 809994).

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Initial encoding of the inscription

bhavaśānti ku taptep· kon· I vā samudra ku dhan· kon· I vā hitāṅkara ku saṁAp· kon· I ku saṁtoy· ku kañcop· ge tel· Oy· ta kuṭi . qnak ta dveṣnad ge saptamātāpitā Avīcinaraka nā laṅleṅ·

Vā Bhavaśānti and Ku Taptep together with a child, Vā Samudra and Ku Dhan together with a child, Vā Hitāṅkara and Ku Saṁqap together with a child, Ku Saṁtoy, Ku Kañcop. They are the people which are given to the shrine. Those who harm them will fall in the hell of Avīci with their mothers and fathers to the seventh generation.

There are traces of letters before line 1 and after line 6.

There is a floral decoration on the top of the stela and a line of circles above and below the text.

Philip Jenner (263) translates the lines 4-6 as follows: "Persons who harm them, they and their fathers and mothers to the seventh generation, - the Avīci hell is the place into which they shall fall".

Edited by George Cœdès (646) without translation.

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