* svasti śrī śaka-varṣātīta 604 Ekādaśī śukla-pakṣa vulan· vaiśākha ḍa punta hiyaṁ nāyik di sāmvau maṅalap siddhayātra di saptamī śukla-pakṣa vulan· jyeṣṭha ḍa punta hiyaṁ marlapas· dari mināṅa tāmvan· mamāva yaṁ vala duA lakṣa daṅan· kośa duA ratus· cāra di sāmvau daṅan· jālan· sarivu tlu rātus· sapuluḥ duA vañakña dātaṁ di ma sukhacitta di pañcamī śukla-pakṣa vula[n· Āṣāḍha] laghu mudita dātaṁ marvuAt· vanuA [Ini ....] śrīvijaya jaya siddhayātra subhikṣa n[ityakāla]

kośa ko With indication that the śa is supplied, Boechari adopts the reading kośa from Poerbatajaraka, though the latter does not indicate any such thing. The indication given by Boechari () is followed here tentatively, though in an earlier publication he seemed to admit that less of the word is actually preserved: The filling up of the gap with kośa has been suggested by Poerbatjaraka (1952). We can still see a taliŋ on the stone (3511) sapuluḥ sapulu ma mata jap· mata yap· mukha p Krom (25-26, with plate) proposed to read malayu. Subsequent scholars have expressed douts about Krom's proposal (1368) or even proposed specific alternative readings. Boechari, for instance, commented: We have to withdraw our reading of mukha upaṅ, proposed at the first SPAFA Workshop on Archaeological and Environmental Studies on Śrīvijaya held in Jakarta (Boechari, 1981). The round dot which we can see on the photograph of part of a paper print published by Dr. N.J. Krom is not found on the stone. On a paper print at our disposal we can see that this round dot is much smaller than the anuswāras in this inscription. And we cannot yet decide what akṣara is written before the remnants of the pa. The reading of mukha, however, is to be maintained (49-5011). To our mind Krom's proposal cannot yet be definitively rejected. śrīvijaya jaya siddhayātra śrīvijaya siddhayātra The omission of jaya was first pointed out by Poerbatjaraka.

Text by Arlo Griffiths (March 2010, June 2024) based on the edition by C. Cœdès (), verified on the basis of photos of the same EFEO (uninked) estampage used by Cœdès, and photos of an inked and uninked set of estampages kept in Leiden.

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