Photograph of the boulder bearing inscription . Taken in the Ninh Thuận Museum by Arlo Griffiths on .
Photograph of the boulder bearing inscription . Taken in the Ninh Thuận Museum by Arlo Griffiths on .
Photograph of the boulder bearing inscription C. 221. Taken in the Ninh Thuận Museum by Arlo Griffiths on 13 October 2009.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 1890.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 1890.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 1890.

C. 221 Boulder from Po Gha cave

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Support Small conical standing boulder; sandstone; h. (top) 44 cm, circumference (max) 76, circumference (top) 55.

Text Two line on one face of a boulder written in Old Cam.

Date 1053 Śaka (1131/2 CE).

Origin Cave of Po Gha (Xóm Bằng, Bắc Sơn, Thuận Bắc, Ninh Thuân, Vietnam).

The boulder was found with C. 222 and C. 223 before 1992, when Mr. Bá Văn Bổn moved it to the Ninh Thuận Museum. We found the boulder in 2009 at the Ninh Thuận Museum as the object bearing the inventory number BTNT 1650/Đ.28 (2) (ECIC III: 466-475).

Edition(s) The present edition and translation after ECIC III: 472.

Facsimile

  • Estampage: EFEO n. 1890

The following text was edited by Arlo Griffiths and Amandine Lepoutre.

om̐
(1) ⦿ aum̃ li re panrām̃
(2) śakarāja 1053

Translations

English

Om. Mr. Li, man (?) of Panrāṅ, [in the year of] the Śaka king 1053.

French

Om. M. Li, homme (?) de Panrāṅ, [en l'année] 1053 du roi des Śaka.