from Xi Chuan’s “A Sanskrit Brick from the Nanzhao Kingdom (738–937 CE): After a Vietnamese Poet” 南诏国梵文砖：仿一位越南诗人:

On the gray-green brick eleven lines of Sanskrit. The hands that molded the Sanskrit lines. The hands that inlaid the brick into the base of the pagoda. The late Nanzhao monk who could read the eleven lines of Sanskrit. The man or men who brought Sanskrit from India through Nepal to Nanzhao.