Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, VI: Epigraphical Texts and Sculptural Steles Produced under the Vīrabhadravarmadevas of 15th-Century Campā

Arlo Griffiths (1, 2)

1 HiSoMA - Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques
2 EFEO - École française d'Extrême-Orient

This study, the sixth publication of the findings of the Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā project, focuses on the inscriptions of the 15th century. Analysis and translations — notably of the entire set of accessible inscriptions engraved on the back-slabs of sculptural steles — reveal the previously unknown name of a king — Śrī Viṣṇujāti Vīrabhadravarmadeva, son of Śrī Jayasiṁhavarmadeva — who reigned through the century’s first four decades. The distribution of 15th-century royal inscriptions from Quảng Nam to Đồng Nai serves to refute revisionist claims that Campā was never a unified kingdom. The epigraphical evidence suggests that, on the contrary, Campā in this period was a land of significant territorial extent ruled by a rather powerful king.

Mots clés: Campā; Vietnam; History; Archaeology; Geography; Art; Inscriptions

Domaines: Religions; Littératures; Linguistique; Histoire; Art et histoire de l'art; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Arlo Griffiths. Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, VI: Epigraphical Texts and Sculptural Steles Produced under the Vīrabhadravarmadevas of 15th-Century Campā. Arlo Griffiths; Andrew Hardy; Geoff Wade. Champa: Territories and Networks of a Southeast Asian Kingdom, 31, École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2019, Études thématiques. ⟨halshs-02292578⟩