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50 Humanities Journal Vol.24 No.2 (July-December 2017)

Ta Prohm and Phra Khan Inscriptions:

A Comparative Study of the Content


Nipat Yamdate

Abstract

This article aims to compare the content of Ta Prohm and Phra Khan
Inscriptions, which are important inscriptions of the reign of King Jayavarman
VII of the Kingdom of Cambodia. It was found that the contents of the Ta Prohm
and Phra Khan Inscriptions share some characteristics but that they have

certain unique characteristics which distinguish one from the other. The shared
characteristics of the content of these two inscriptions are in the initial chapters,
from the first stanza to stanza 18, which are concerned with the worship of the
sacred spirit according to Buddhist belief and the account of the genealogy of

King Jayavarman VII. However, the contents of the inscription from the stanza
19 onwards are clearly different except for accounts of offerings dedicated to
certain sacred images whose names are the same although the quantities of
the offerings and the placement of the accounts in the inscriptions are different
and for the end of the last chapter, in which is presented a message of the
king. On the other hand, the contents which differ are the section praising the

heroism of King Jayavarman VII, sections on the building of shrines, lists of

 Doctoral student in Epigraphic Study. Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn
University. e-mail: nipatyamdate@hotmail.com