# N. 454. Instruction to tax collectors at Wuang Got, ca. 875 CE

Arlo Griffiths

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENK00454

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSIDENK00454.xml

Language: Old Javanese [Kawi]

Commit: 2026-11-09 08:51 (6580fa0), last modified 2026-09-09 14:27
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## Palaeographic description

Script very similar to that seen in Bulai and Marsemu.

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1v1⟩ ╫ pavaraḥ I soĀra saṁ maṅilala dravya haji kabaiḥ kriṁ◦
paḍam·◦ pinilai◦ kataṅgaran·◦ halu varak·◦ maṁrumvai◦ ⟨1v2⟩ paranakan·◦
paravat·◦ mahaliman·◦ I⊔tyaivammādi saprakāra saṁ maṅilala dravya ha⊔ji
kabaiḥ Ujar saṁ pamgat· ⟨1v3⟩ makudur· majara sira I hananikana varahan·
◯ saṁ hyaṁ kudur· I vuAṁ got· vatag valā Ikana kunaṁ daiya saṁ maṅila⊔la
⟨1v4⟩ dravya haji ka⊔baiḥ tar tamatāta sira Aṅkāna◦ muAṁ saprakārani
gavainya kabaiḥ madagaṁ◦ maṅulaṁ◦ paṇḍai◦ mañamvul·

## Translation

As for the duty of all collectors of royal revenue: they should by no
means be present here.[1] And all of their occupations: selling, buying,
forging, painting black […]

## Commentary

The inscription is similar in physical appearance and in content to the
Marsemu charter.

## Bibliography

Recently emerged on the antiquities market, the inscription is edited
here for the first time from photographs of the plate.

[1] We tentatively analyze tartamatāta as a double negation tar tamata
ata “no, not at all”. The word aṅkāna is a spelling variant of ṅkāna.
See the Dalinan charter (N. 391), 1v3–3: ājñā haji kinonakan ikanaṅ
masamvyavahāra *aṅkāna hīṅ-hīṅṅana kvaihanya.