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Face A contains seven Sanskrit stanzas in anuṣṭubh meter. The first is an invocation to the Buddha. Stanzas II and III praise the fieriness and righteousness of the ruling king Jayavarman I. The raison d’être of the inscription is mentioned in stanzas IV and V: these constitute an edict of King Jayavarman I concerning a monastery called Candana “sandalwood”
Face B is a fourteen-line text in Old Khmer. It echoes the Sanskrit text in what is said about the annual procession of the Buddha’s statue of Candana Monastery on the full moon day of Vaiśākha as an order of King Jayavarman I. It also provides details of the management of the wealth of the monastery including servants, slaves, cows, buffaloes etc. The last two lines warn that those who flout the order of the king shall be punished.
The lettering is characteristic of the eighth 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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puṣya
mrateṅa Aña śrī
tapa
Aṁv
jagata śr
tula piya pratisthā vraḥ ka
mrateṅa Aña nārāyana
vraḥ śivaliṅga ti
mrateṅa Aña
panā ta
mrateṅa Aña nārāyana
ti kaṁluṅa kamrateṅa Aña
śrī
ka caṅkvaya sruka jeṅa vnaṁ
la ta kamrateṅ jagata śrī puṇda
r
May Viṣṇu, splendid with light
Known as Acyuta
He who has vanquished Love, whose vehicle is the bull, most venerable, made to shine with plentiful ashes,
Having no regard for his own life, his sword raised in battle
Born of an excellent lineage of Kṣatriyas and of brahmins who had flourished in
He gave silver, gold and jewels, villages, fields, cattle
The gifts
There was a king on earth of spotlessly clean Dharma,
That Śrī Jayavarmmadeva, a twice-born
In 697 Śaka, on the 8th day of the waxing moon of the month of Pauṣa, Vraḥ Kamrateṅ Añ Śrī
Edited preliminarily by Dominic Goodall (Sanskrit portion on face A and face B) and Kunthea Chhom (Khmer portion on face C) based on the photo AMP 007558.jpg (belonging to the Stone Restoration Workshop of the National Museum in Phonm Penh).