The online edition of the Cham inscriptions, with photographs, texts and translations, keyed to the C. numbers. Champa in 1200 was in the aftermath of the Khmer conquest: Jayavarman VII's armies had taken Vijaya in 1190, the Cham prince Vidyanandana (Suryavarmadeva), set up by the Khmer, had turned against them and ruled a reunited Champa from about 1192, and the Khmer would crush him in 1203 and hold Champa as a province until 1220. The Mỹ Sơn stelae of the 1170s to 1190s (Finot's edition of 1904) tell the wars from the Cham side; the corpus's re-edited records of the next generation, for example the Phan Rang doorjamb of 1226 to 1227 (C. 4), which recounts Jaya Paramesvaravarman II's wars with the Khmer, Siamese and Viets, and the Po Nagar record of 1233 to 1234 (C. 30 B1), which lists captive Khmer, Siamese and Burmese labourers, show the outcome. Records dated exactly to 1200 are lacking.
About this source
- Title
- Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campa
- Author
- Various (the Cham kings and their officers), edited by Arlo Griffiths, Amandine Lepoutre, William Southworth and Thanh Phan
- Written
- inscriptions of the 4th to 15th centuries; the online corpus from 2012
- Language
- Sanskrit and Old Cham, with English (and some French) translations
- Covers
- the Cham inscriptions from about 350 to 1450
- Kind
- Inscriptions
The corpus is a work in progress and many 12th-century records are still given only in the older editions (Finot, BEFEO 1904; Bergaigne 1893). Maspero's narrative is dated but still the only full one in a western language; his king list for the 1190s is partly conjecture.
Where to read it
Editions
- Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campa, home page
- Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campa, list of inscriptions by C. number
- C. 4, Phan Rang doorjamb of Jaya Paramesvaravarman II, 1226 to 1227
- C. 30 B1, Po Nagar doorjamb of 1233 to 1234
Translations
- G. Maspero, Le royaume de Champa (Paris and Brussels, 1928), French narrative built on the inscriptions and Chinese sources; not located online in this task (not freely online)