Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c10.10

c10.10

But Kambuja shows a still more wonderful progress in Sanskrit. In a recent work, just published, I have brought together the texts of about one hundred and fifty Sanskrit inscriptions from Kambuja. Most of these inscriptions are written in beautiful and almost flawless Kāvya style, and some of them are quite big compositions The verse is a pun on the rule of Pāṇini VIII, 2.14 (*rājanvān saurājye*). It makes an exception to the general rule about the elision of the final *n* before the consonant in the word *rājanvān* in the sense of 'having good king', the ordinary form '*rājavān*' meaning only 'having a king'. There are similar references in an inscription of the time of Yaśo-varman:—