# Disunuh (709 Śaka)

Arlo Griffiths

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths

Contributor: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENKDisunuh

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSIDENKDisunuh.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 characteristic of the 8th century CE, with superposed virāma
signs.

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## Edition

⟨3⟩ ∥ svasti śaka-varṣātīta ⟨4⟩ 709 caitra-māsa ṣaṣṭi kr̥ṣṇa-pakṣa ⟨5⟩
śukra-vāra vurukuṁ pon· tatkāla ḍaṁ karayān· ⟨6⟩ [2+]śr̥(ī) senāpati,
mamulaṁṅa(ka)n sīma ḍi vanva I ⟨7⟩ ḍisunuḥ ḍaṁ karayān· humaṇḍiṁ ḍa
punta tīs· mahāla[1×] ḍisu⟨8⟩nuḥ ḍaṁ karayān· vakka saṁ ḍa nuI, ḍisunuḥ
ḍa punta maṁṅuhu[r]i ⟨9⟩ ḍa punta tīra, ḍisunuḥ ḍaṁ tiruAn· (saṁ)
galaha, saṁ ⟨10⟩ ḍisunuḥ ḍa punta rāja⊔siṁh¡i!⟨ī⟩(ś)varaḥ ⟨11⟩ saṁ
vayur· saṁ pravalā nāma, ⟨12⟩ manurat· ⟨1⟩ bhagavān tat(ā)[1×] (ḍa)[ṁ]
⟨2⟩ (ka)rayān· (sva)⊓(sthā) n¡a!⟨ā⟩ma

## Apparatus

⟨6⟩ śr̥(ī) senāpati SP ⬦ śr̥ī rānāpati GS • For other examples, from South
and Southeast Asia, of the redundant spelling r̥ī for rī, see Griffiths
et al. 2017, p. 78, n. 83. — ⟨6⟩ vanva SP ⬦ vunva GS • Below the
consonant v one at first sight seems to find an unexpected suku, but on
closer inspection it turns out to be an accidental scratch.

⟨7⟩ ḍisunuḥ SP ⬦ ḍisuruḥ GS • Throughout the text, Goenawan Sambodo
reads the toponym ḍisunuḥ as ḍisuruḥ. — ⟨7⟩ humaṇḍiṁ SP ⬦ hamaḍraṁ GS •
Below the cluster ṇḍ one at first sight seems to find an unexpected
cakra, but on closer inspection it turns out to be an accidental
scratch. — ⟨7⟩ ḍa nuI, ḍisunuḥ ⬦ ḍanu¿ I,?⟨, I⟩ ḍisunuḥ SP; ḍa nuI,
ḍisuruḥ GS • In SP, our emendation of ḍa nuI, to ḍanu⟨, I⟩ was based on
the belief that I had to be a preposition and that the punctuation sign
had to come before it. We now understand that we have the element ḍa nuI
as equivalent for what is spelt ra nuI in other inscriptions (Damais
1970, p. 169), and hence withdraw the emendation. — ⟨7⟩ mahāla[1×] ⬦
mahāla(kṣma) SP; mahālaka GS.

⟨10⟩ rāja⊔siṁh¡i!⟨ī⟩(ś)varaḥ ⬦ rāja⊔siṁh(eś)varaḥ SP; rāja laṁligvaraḥ
GS • Although from the Sanskrit point of view, one would expect the name
to end in -siṁheśvaraḥ, what is engraved is clearly vowel i and not e.
In South Indian epigraphy, one rather commonly finds analogous cases of
īśvara for expected eśvara. For instance, the famous temple founded at
the beginning of the 11th century by Rājarāja I Cōḻa in Tanjore is
regularly named Rājarājīśvara, not Rājarājeśvara, in its epigraphical
corpus (Hultzsch 1891).

## Translation

Hail! Elapsed Śaka year 709, month of Caitra, sixth (tithi) of the
waning fortnight, Friday, Vurukuṅ, Pon. That was when the lord (ḍaṅ
karayān) [2+]śrī, the army commander (senāpati), restored sīma (status)
to the village of Ḍisunuh for the lord of Humaṇḍiṅ, (namely) ḍa punta
Tīs. Those who mahāla[1×] were called:

- ⟨at⟩ Ḍisunuh, the lord of Vəka (called) saṅ ḍa Nui

- ⟨at⟩ Ḍisunuh, ḍa punta Maṅuhuri ⟨and⟩ ḍa punta Tīra

- ⟨at⟩ Ḍisunuh, ḍa Tiruan (called) saṅ Galaha

- the Ḍisunuh (called) ḍa punta Rājasiṅhīśvarah

- saṅ Vayur ⟨and⟩ saṅ Pravalā

The ones who wrote were called: bhagavān Tatā[…] ⟨and⟩ lord Svasthā.

## Commentary

Lines 1 and 2 were clearly not planned initially to be placed where they
are, as intrusion from the ascenders of varṣātīta proves. They need to
be read after line 12. The engraver moved back to the top when he ran
out of space at the bottom of the stone. The text therefore begins on
line 3 and ends on line 2. The misreading of the segment śr̥(ī) senāpati
in line 6 in the initial reading by Goenawan Sambodo has led to the
inscription becoming known under the name Sri Ranapati.

## Bibliography

First edited and informally published by Goenawan Sambodo. The text,
re-edited here by Arlo Griffiths from photogrammetry made in 2023 by
Adeline Levivier, was initially published with Indonesian translation in
Titi Surti Nastiti et al. 2024, upon which publication we are now (2025)
able to make some corrections.

### Primary

[GS] Goenawan A. Sambodo. 2018. “Kajian Singkat Prasasti Śrī Rānāpati.”
Yogyakarta. [URL].

[SP] Titi Surti Nastiti, Churmatin Nasoichah, Andri Restiyadi, Hedwi
Prihatmoko, Arlo Griffiths, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, Adeline Levivier &
Tyassanti Kusumo Dewanti. 2024. Survei prasasti zaman Hindu-Buddha di
Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta dan Provinsi Jawa Tengah, tahun 2023.
Jakarta: KPG (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia); Badan Riset dan Inovasi
Nasional (BRIN), Organisasi Riset Arkeologi, Bahasa dan Sastra; École
française d’Extrême-Orient. [URL]. Section 2.3.10, pages 73–75.