Rock inscription from Tham Lekh cave (K. 723)
Edition
Upajāti
1samādhaye sarvvatamodhanāṇā-
2m iyaṁ guhā vaktraguheti nāmnā
3sā niṣṭhitā vaktraśivena śaktyā
4vibhāti bhaddreśvaraśailapārśve |
5kaṁ ti chdyās· guhā kaṁ ti ruḥ pnāṅ· doṣa
Apparatus
1 sarvvatamo ◇ sarvvatapo GC • Dominic Goodall noticed that the word sarvvatamo is readable on the estampage, but it had to be corrected as sarvvatapo (Goodall 2015: page 21, note 25).
Translation into French by Cœdès 1937-1966
I.
Pour la méditation de tous ceux qui sont riches d’ascétisme, cette grotte nommée ,
aménagée par , resplendit par la puissance [de cet ascète] sur le flanc du mont Bhadreśvara.
5Défense d’encombrer la grotte, défense de démolir la cloison : [ce serait] une faute.
Translation by Goodall 2015
For the meditation of all ascetics, this cave, by name, created, to the best of his
ability (śaktyā), by , is resplendent on the side of the Bhareśvara mountain.
Bibliography
First edited by George Cœdès with a French translation (1937-1966: volume 5, pages 12–13); re-edited by Dominic Goodall with an English translation
of the Sanskrit stanza (2015: page 21).
Primary
Cœdès, George. 1937–1966. Inscriptions du Cambodge I-VIII. Collection de textes et documents sur l’Indochine 3. Hanoi; Paris: Imprimerie d’Extrême-Orient
[vol. I]; EFEO.
Volume 5,
pages 12–13.
[siglum GC]
Goodall, Dominic. 2015. “On K. 1049, a Tenth-Century Cave-Inscription from Battambang,
and on the Sectarian Obedience of the Śaiva Ascetics of Non-Royal Cave-Inscriptions
in Cambodia.” UJKS 13: 3–34. [http://www.yosothor.org/udaya/index.php/ujks/article/view/205].
Page 21.
[siglum DG]