Baked clay tablet from Angkor Borei (K. 1355), 7th-8th c. CE intellectual authorship of edition Kunthea Chhom Arlo Griffiths intellectual authorship of edition Peter Skilling Kunthea Chhom Arlo Griffiths DHARMA Lyon DHARMA_INSCIK01355

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 started initial encoding of the inscription
ye dhammā hetu-ppabhavā tesaṁ hetuṁ tathāgato Āha tesañ ca yo nirodho Evaṁ-vādī mahā-samaṇo yadā have pātubhavanti dhammā Ātāpino jhāyino brāhmaṇassanassa Athassa kaṅkhā vapayanti savvā yato pajānāti sahetudhammaṁ yadā have pātubhavanti dhammā Ātāpino jhāyino brāhmaṇassanassa Athassa kaṅkhā vapayanti savvā yato khayaṁ paccayānaṁ Avedi yadā have pātubhavanti dhammā Ātāpino jhāyino brāhmaṇassanassa Athassa kaṅkhā vapayanti savvā vidhūpayan titthati māra-senaṁ

The states arisen from a cause / Their cause the Tathāgata proclaims, / As well as their cessation: This is the teaching of the Great Ascetic.

Indeed! When the truths become clear / To the ardent brahman as he meditates / Then all of his uncertainties vanish / When he fathoms the law of causation.

Indeed! When the truths become clear / To the ardent brahman as he meditates / Then all of his uncertainties vanish / When he realizes the cessation of conditions.

Indeed! When the truths become clear / To the ardent brahman as he meditates / Then all of his uncertainties vanish / And he stands having routed Māra’s army.

Edited by Peter Skilling first in preliminary fashion on the sole basis of an estampage () and then republished based on color photographs and a new estampage (); re-edited here by Kunthea Chhom & Arlo Griffiths from color photographs and estampages.

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