Volume 15, Number 1 · July 2, 1970
Cambodia: Sanskrit Inscriptions
By J.F. Staal
While the newspapers continue to tell us how in Vietnam, and now in Cambodia, people, animals, villages, farms, cities, crops, forests, and even the fish in the ocean are being destroyed, little information is given about the destruction of an ancient civilization. We do not know which temples and monasteries were destroyed and which books and manuscripts, sculptures and inscriptions have disappeared forever. A study of the history of the Sanskrit inscriptions from Cambodia alone may help us to understand a civilization that may soon be altogether lost.
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