# Stone from Gerba (no. 1)

Muhamad Alnoza and Arlo Griffiths

Authors of digital edition: Muhamad Alnoza, Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENKGerba01

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSIDENKGerba01.xml

Language: Old Javanese [Kawi]

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## Palaeographic description

Javanese script typical of 15th-century stone inscription from
mountainous areas in Central and East Java. Broad simplified characters
shallowly engraved.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ⊖ tulus aṅalu⟨2⟩sa den· kada ⟨3⟩ botaṅ akasa ⟨4⟩ lavan· pr̥tivi
so⟨r⟩⟨5⟩ga kabuk·tiha⊖

## Translation into Old Javanese

Permanently leading the life of hermits, let them experience heaven
(i.e., as long as) sky and earth.

## Bibliography

Previously deciphered by Sukarto K. Atmodjo (1986) who reproduces a
drawing of the text but not of its material support, and also by Aang
Pambudi Nugroho (2018). This digital edition based on photographs.

### Primary

NBG 1889. Notulen van de Algemeene en Bestuurs-vergaderingen van het
Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen: Deel XXVII — 1889.
Batavia: Albrecht & Rusche, 1890. Pages 73–74.

Sukarto K. Atmodjo, M. M. 1986. “Mengungkap masalah pembacaan Prasasti
Pasrujambe.” BA(Y) 7 (1), pp. 39–55. DOI: 10.30883/jba.v7i1.450. [URL].
Page 46, figure 4.

Aang Pambudi Nugroho. 2018. “Inskripsi Gerba I dan II: Tinjauan Fungsi
dan Peranannya dalam Tata Ruang Maṇḍala di Gunung Semeru Abad XV
Masehi.” In: Menggores Aksara, Mengurai Kata, Menafsir Makna. Kumpulan
Makalah Seminar Nasional Epigrafi, Penelitian Terkini Prasasti
Indonesia. No place, pp. 1–22. Pages 1–22.

### Secondary

Verbeek, Rogier Diederik Marius. 1891. Oudheden van Java: Lijst der
voornaamste overblijfselen uit den Hindoetijd op Java, met eene
oudheidkundige kaart. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van
Kunsten en Wetenschappen 46. Batavia; ’s-Hage: Landsdrukkerij; Nijhoff.
[URL]. Page 293 (no. 612).

Knebel, J. 1904. “Beschrijving der Hindoe-oudheden in de residentie
Pasoeroehan, afdeeling Malang 1902.” ROC (Bijlage 18), pp. 253–383.
Pages 342–343.