# Relief label from Borobudur’s hidden base, no. 148B (8th c. CE)

Arlo Griffiths and Hedwi Prihatmoko

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Hedwi Prihatmoko

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENKBorobudurHB148B

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSIDENKBorobudurHB148B.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Kawi]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ bhogī

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhogī NJK SL • Kern stated that the reading is unclear, but Krom and
Lévi could read the inscription.

## Translation

landowner

## Bibliography

First published by Kern (1896); republished by the same author (1917)
and subsequently by Krom (1927); Lévi (1932) made a critical edition by
making a comparison to the Karma-Vibhaṅga text from Nepal, Tibet, and
China; this digital edition based on the 1927 publication by Krom and
Lévi in his 1932 publication.

### Primary

[HK] Kern, Johan Hendrik Caspar. 1917. “Over de bijschriften op het
beeldhouwwerk van Boro-Budur (± 850 A. D.)” In: Verspreide geschriften,
zevende deel: inscripties van den Indischen archipel, slot; de
Nāgarakṛtāgama, eerste gedeelte. ’s-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, pp. 145–156.
Page 149.

[NJK] Krom, Nicolaas Johannes. 1927. Barabudur: Archaeological
description, vol. I. The Hague: Nijhoff. Page 53.

[SL] Lévi, Sylvain. 1932. Mahā-karmavibhaṅga (La Grande classification
des actes) et Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa (Discussion sur le MahāKarmavibhaṅga):
textes sanscrits rapportés du Népal, édités et traduits avec les textes
parallèles en sanscrit, en pali, en tibétain, en chinois et en
koutchéen. Paris: E. Leroux. [URL]. Page 98.