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The four-hundred-year sentence
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Claim (verbatim)
Certain invocations and royal-title formulas in Cham inscriptions recur essentially verbatim across spans of centuries — sentences that outlive the dynasties that first cut them. Join textual formula to the geneticist's notion of a conserved sequence: text that refuses to mutate across deep time implies a template and high copying fidelity, not independent reinvention from memory. Verbatim persistence at this depth in a purely memorial tradition is implausible, so it structurally requires written chancery models — formularies on perishable media, maintained and consulted for generations — of which not one physical example survives; the measured mutation rate of formula versus surrounding free text thus becomes an instrument that detects lost reference documents. If it holds, Campā is shown to have kept continuous chancery archives across its political upheavals, the stability of stone quietly proving a palm-leaf institution behind it.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
N-gram analysis across dated Cham inscriptions will identify formulaic passages recurring near-verbatim across gaps exceeding 200 years, and the per-century textual mutation rate of these formulas will be at least five times lower than that of non-formulaic passages of matched length and period. Primary clause: the at-least-fivefold fidelity gap between formulaic and free text; the verdict follows it.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
The Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā (Cham inscriptions, C-numbers): n-gram persistence and mutation-rate measurement across the dated corpus.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated blind in a single Write by a fresh instance working only from the inline prompt, with no file reads, web access, or database queries.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
The formulaic character of Cham invocations and royal titulature is noted in the corpus literature (Majumdar; ECIC series), but no n-gram persistence or formula-versus-free-text mutation-rate measurement exists for the Campa corpus. Thin-field flag: the C-number corpus is small (~250 studied inscriptions) and much editorial work is francophone or in progress at EFEO.
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