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laurenth

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Hello, a friend who blindly overestimates my Chinese asked if I could help him decipher a seal character inscription at the bottom of a statue he owns (perhaps an arhat, 阿羅漢).  I have zero knowledge of seal script but did my homework and could make out, maybe, three or four of the 9 characters:

 

1? 
2 obviously there's the 門 component, but what's in between the doors? 
3 probably 羅 
4 羅 again
5 圓 ??? not sure
6 probably 尊 
7 there's a 阜 component on the right, a 土 at the bottom and then? 墬? 
8 言 on the right? 
9 probably 度

 

Could someone help me for the rest? After that, there will be the delicate question of what it all *means*.

 

Thanks in advance.

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