Photograph of inscription . Taken at Mỹ Sơn by Arlo Griffiths on .
Photograph of inscription . Taken at Mỹ Sơn by Arlo Griffiths on .
Photograph of inscription C. 75. Taken at Mỹ Sơn by Arlo Griffiths on 27 September 2009.
Photograph of inscription . Taken at Mỹ Sơn by Arlo Griffiths on .
Photograph of inscription . Taken at Mỹ Sơn by Arlo Griffiths on .
Photograph of inscription C. 75. Taken at Mỹ Sơn by Arlo Griffiths on 27 September 2009.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 332.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 332.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 332.

C. 75 Block at Mỹ Sơn

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Support Oblong block; sandstone; we have not recorded dimensions. Parmentier 1909: 382 has recorded only two (we infer that the shorter of the two is for the height of the object), viz. h. 40 cm × w. 90.

Text Four lines on one face written in Old Cam.

Date 4 waxing Jyeṣṭha 913 Śaka (21 May 991 CE).

Origin Site of Mỹ Sơn (Quảng Nam).

The block was found at Mỹ Sơn, group B, south of B1 (see the observation by Parmentier 1909: 382 n. 1, correcting a contradictory report) before 1904. It was listed as number XI in the list of inscriptions of this site (Finot 1904b: 933; see also the table in that article). We identified the stone in the courtyard of the D group in 2009, as the one bearing local inventory number 03MSD3501 (see ECIC III: 457).

Edition(s) First published, with French translation, in Finot 1904a: 113-115; reading of the millésime questioned in Barth 1904: 117-119; reading of the month number corrected in Finot 1904b: 933; reading of the millésime corrected in Finot 1915b: 49; contents summarized by Majumdar 1927: 145; previous publications reproduced, with translation into English, in Golzio 2004: 122. Newly edited, with French translation, in ECIC III: 457, which publication is reproduced here.

Facsimiles

  • Estampage: EFEO 321
  • Estampage: EFEO n. 332

The following text was edited by Arlo Griffiths.

(1) ||| di śakarāja 913 huriy· 5 vaṅun· vulān· 4 vṛhaspativāra (ma)-
(2) ghanakṣatra vṛścikalagna kāla yāṅ· po ku vijaya śrī harivarmmadeva
(3) punaḥ yāṅ· po ku śrī jaya īśānabhadreśvara karaṇa kīrtti yaśa di bhūmima-
(4) ṇḍala niy· || ((fleuron))

1 913 ◇ 917 Golzio; 713 Finot. The reading 7 for the units that Golzio proposes is impossible, as inspection of the estampage shows. See our discussion in ECIC III, and especially the table on p. 486. — vulān· 4 ◇ Finot (1904b); vulān 8 (?) Finot (1904a). Finot first read the month name as 8 (?). We adopt the reading that he later proposed with confidence (Finot 1904b: 933).

Translations

English

In the [year of the] Śaka-king 913, day 5 of the waxing [fortnight] of month 4, Thursday, lunar mansion Magha, Scorpio in the ascendant. [This was] the time that Y.P.K. the victorious Śrī Harivarmadeva re-established (the image of) Y.P.K. Śrī Jaya Īśānabhadreśvara, for the sake of fame and glory in this earthly domain.

French

En [l’année] 913 [du] roi des Śaka, jour 5 de la [quinzaine] croissante du mois 4, un jeudi, mansion lunaire de Maghā, l’ascendant en Scorpion. [Ceci fut] le temps où Y. P. K. le victorieux Śrī Harivarmadeva rétablit (l’image de) Y. P. K. Śrī Jaya Īśānabhadreśvara, en vue de la gloire et de la renommée dans ce domaine terrestre.

Commentary

On the issue of the correct reading and interpretation of the dating formula in this inscription, see ECIC III: 457.

Notes

  1. Recorded under this number in the registration of Mỹ Sơn as a Unesco World Heritage Site