# Embossed Image of Śiva in Gold Leaf from Central Java (8th c. CE)

Arlo Griffiths

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENKBukateja

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSIDENKBukateja.xml

Language: Old Malay [Kawi]

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

⟨1⟩ ╫ Ini pade(y)ānda havaṁ payaṁṅān∙ ╫

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pade(y)ānda ⬦ paḍehānda C; padeyān da G • At present (2025), it
seems more likely to me that De Casparis was right to interpret da as a
suffix.

## Translation

This (referring to the embossed plaque) is the donation of Da Hawang
Payangan.

## Bibliography

First published by De Casparis (1956); republished by Griffiths (2013);
this digital edition based on the 2013 publication.

### Primary

[C] de Casparis, Johannes Gijsbertus. 1956. Selected inscriptions from
the 7^(th) to the 9^(th) century A.D. Prasasti Indonesia 2. Bandung:
Masa Baru. Pages 207–211.

[G] Griffiths, Arlo. 2013. “The inscription on an embossed image of Śiva
in gold leaf from Central Java, Indonesia.” In: Materializing Southeast
Asia’s past: Selected papers from the 12th International Conference of
the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, volume 2.
Edited by Marijke J. Klokke & Véronique Degroot. Singapore: NUS Press,
pp. 119–121. [URL].

### Secondary

Damais, Louis-Charles. 1968. “Bibliographie indonésienne, XI: Les
publications épigraphiques du service archéologique de l’Indonésie.”
BEFEO 54, pp. 295–521. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1968.3778. [URL]. Pages
438–442.