Bronze base for a triad of statuettes (N. 138, ca. 10th c. CE) author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Jakarta DHARMA_INSIDENK00138.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata

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 encoded the inscription

. padmasri ya Aṁpuṇyaña siliḥ vapuḥ Ayāṇḍa vapāṇḍa .

ya Aṁpuṇyaña yaAṁ puṇya In my previous publication, I was unable to offer a plausible justification of the spelling yaAṁ and did not yet recognize the character ña that I now read and interpret as a substitution for ṇya. As a consequence, if anusvāra here expresses the phoneme /m/ as it is known to do in some other Old Malay texts too (182, 19345), we are able to interpret Aṁpu as a spelling of əmpu.

Despite progress in understanding since my 2011 publication, the meaning of this text is still rather unclear. Although it seems more likely that ya is a pronoun, it might also be interpreted as the final syllable of a name then to be read as Padmaśriya. The following translation options can be proposed: Padmasri, he is the owner replacing his/her mother and his/her father. Padmasri, he is the owner of this likeness of his/her mother and his/her father. Padmasriya. The owner of this statuette has replaced his/her mother and his/her father. It is also imaginable that əmpu here means master-craftsman rather than owner.

First published by Griffiths (), from photographs. This digital edition by Arlo Griffiths (2025), based on the previous publication, with one significant modification.

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