Inscription for installation of Viṣṇu at Banteay Srei (K. 573)

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Current Version:  draft, 2023-11-08Z

Editor:   Dominic Goodall.

DHARMA Identifier: INSCIK00573

Summary: In three anuṣṭubh verses, this inscription records the installation of an image of Viṣṇu by Pṛthivīpaṇḍita, a relative of Yajñāvarāha, in the northern tower of the temple-complex of Banteay Srei.

Hand Description:

Six lines engraved on the southern doorjamb of the northern sanctuary-tower of the complex of Banteay Srei.


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Edition

I. Anuṣṭubh
jayati prathamaḥ puṃsāṁ
yasya śavdaguṇapadam∙ |
2paramaṁ paramārthajñais
sandṛṣṭam iva madhyamam∙ ||

II. Anuṣṭubh
3tasya yajñavarāhasya
saṁvandhī dharmmavāndhavaḥ |
4Ākhyāṁ śrīpṛthivīndrādyāṁ
paṇḍitāntām avāpa yaḥ ||

III. Anuṣṭubh
5teneha sthāpitā viṣṇoḥ
pra[bha]viṣṇor iyan nimā |
6bhaktyā bhāgavatāryyeṇa
sarvvaśāstrārthavedinā ||

Apparatus

3b prabhaviṣṇor • Finot marks that he has supplied bhav, but the v of prabhaviṣṇor is visible on the EFEO estampage n. 424.

Translation into French

1Victoire au premier des Mâles, dont le séjour intermédiaire, caractérisé par le son, est [néanmoins] considéré comme suprême par les connaisseurs de la Suprême Réalité !

2Celui qui, parent et ami spirituel de Yajñavarāha, a reçu le nom de Śrī Pṛthivīndrapaṇḍita,

3Ce noble Bhāgavata, connaissant le sens de tous les śāstras, a érigé avec piété cette statue du tout-puissant Viṣṇu.

Commentary

For the restitution, cf. the use of the collocation viṣṇoḥ prabhaviṣṇoḥ in K. 445, st. 9, and K. 576, line 6.

Bibliography

Primary

EFEO Estampage n. 424. Finot1926, pp. 70, 93, 107.

Secondary