Sīmā stone from Ban Naxone (K. 1616), 758 Śaka EpiDoc encoding Arlo Griffiths intellectual authorship of edition Dominic Goodall Arlo Griffiths DHARMA Jakarta DHARMA_INSCIK01616

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 encoded the inscription
śrīmāñ chrī-dharmmasiṁhaḥ prathitatara-yaśo dig-vidiś-cāpa-śobhaḥ dharmmajñaḥ Ādya-dāntaḥ ripu-gaṇa-vijayaḥ śaktimān tyāga-śūraḥ trailokyaṁl lokanārthaḥ Apara-hita-rata sthāpitan tena śailaṁ mūrttiḥ-bāṇāśva-śāke śukla-pakṣe

L'illustre Śrī Dharmasiṁha est d'une renommée fort répandue, doté de la beauté de l'arc en ciel dans toutes les directions cardinales et intermédiaires; conscient du dharma; d'une retenue hors paire; conquérant des ennemis en masse; puissant; champion de générosité. Soucieux du bien des autres, pour surveiller (lokana = avalokana?) les Trois Mondes, il a érigé la pierre, dans la quinzaine claire ... de l’année śaka exprimée comme (8) formes, (5) flèches, (7) chevaux donc en 758 śaka.

We find a small number of irregularities of sandhi: -jñaḥ Ādya- and mūrttiḥ-bā-. Straddling the caesura, we see that sandhi is alternatively applied (a -yaśo / dig-), or not applied (b -dāntaḥ / ripu-, c -nārthaḥ / Apara-).

First documented by Michel Lorrillard in 2024. This digital edition by Dominic Goodall and Arlo Griffiths from photographs of the stela and of an estampage.