# Wayuku (776 Śaka)

Arlo Griffiths

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths

Contributor: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENKWayuku

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSIDENKWayuku.xml

Language: Old Javanese [Kawi]

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

⟨1⟩ ╫ svāsti śaka-varṣātīta 776 ⟨2⟩ caitra-māsa tithi caturdaśi
śukla-pa⟨3⟩kṣa vurukuṁ pahiṁ śukra-v¡a!⟨ā⟩ra tatkāla ⟨4⟩ rakai sisair·
pu virājā manusuk· ⟨5⟩ savaḥ I vayuku sīmāni bihā⟨6⟩ranira I Abhayananda

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ 776 D ⬦ 779 CS&LB.

⟨4⟩ sisair· D ⬦ si sairā CS&LB.

## Translation

Hail! Elapsed Śaka year 776, month of Caitra, fourteenth ⟨tithi⟩ of the
waxing fortnight, Vurukuṅ (of the 6-day cycle), Pahiṅ (of the 5-day
cycle), Friday (i.e., on 16 March 854 CE): that was when the Lord/Lady
of Sisair (named) pu Virājā demarcated the paddy fields at Vayuku to
become a sīma of his/her vihāra at Abhayananda.

## Bibliography

The text was first edited, with a facsimile, in Cohen Stuart & van
Limburg Brouwer 1872 (and reproduced in Cohen Stuart 1875 as well as
Sarkar 1971–1972); the two errors in this edition were corrected in
Damais 1955. The present digital edition follows the latter, confirmed
by Arlo Griffiths from photographs.

### Primary

[CS&LB] Cohen Stuart, Abraham Benjamin & J. J. van Limburg Brouwer.
1872. “Beschreven steenen op Java.” TBG 18, pp. 89–117. Item III, pages
108–109.

[D] Damais, Louis-Charles. 1955. “Études d’épigraphie indonésienne, IV :
Discussion de la date des inscriptions.” BEFEO 47, pp. 7–290. DOI:
10.3406/befeo.1955.5406. [URL]. Pages 23–24.

### Secondary

Cohen Stuart, Abraham Benjamin. 1875. Kawi oorkonden in facsimile, met
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Brandes, Jan Laurens Andries. 1887. “Beschreven steenen.” In: Catalogus
der archaeologische verzameling van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van
Kunsten en Wetenschappen. By Willem Pieter Groeneveldt. Batavia:
Albrecht & Co., pp. 351–391. Page 375, item 10.

Brandes, Jan Laurens Andries & Nicolaas Johannes Krom. 1913.
Oud-Javaansche Oorkonden: Nagelaten transcripties. Verhandelingen van
het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 60 (parts 1 and
2). Batavia; ’s-Hage: Albrecht; Nijhoff. [URL]. Plate 3.

Kern, Johan Hendrik Caspar. 1917. “Het Sanskrit op eenen steen afkomstig
(van Pereng), uit (de buurt van) Prambanan (785 Çāka).” In: Verspreide
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Damais, Louis-Charles. 1951. “Études d’épigraphie indonésienne, I :
Méthode de réduction des dates javanaises en dates européennes.” BEFEO
45 (1), pp. 1–41. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1951.5509. [URL]. Pages 29–31.

Damais, Louis-Charles. 1952. “Études d’épigraphie indonésienne, III :
Liste des principales inscriptions datées de l’Indonesie.” BEFEO 46 (1),
pp. 1–105. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.1952.5158. [URL]. Pages 30–31, item A.19.

Damais, Louis-Charles. 1970. Répertoire onomastique de l’épigraphie
javanaise (jusqu’à Pu Siṇḍok Śrī Īśānawikrama Dharmmotuṅgadewa): Étude
d’épigraphie indonésienne. Publications de l’École française
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item 48.

Sarkar, Himansu Bhusan. 1971–1972. Corpus of the inscriptions of Java
(Corpus inscriptionum Javanicarum), up to 928 A. D. 2 vols. Calcutta:
K.L. Mukhopadhyay. Volume I, item XVIII, page 127.

Nakada, Kōzō. 1982. An inventory of the dated inscriptions in Java.
Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko 40. Tokyo: Toyo
Bunko. Pages 78–79, item I.23.

Hasan Djafar, Hasan Djafar, Ninie Susanti Tedjowasono, Andriyati Rahayu,
Trigangga & Fifia Wardhani. 2016. Prasasti Batu: Pembacaan ulang dan
alih aksara I. Jakarta: Museum Nasional Indonesia. Pages 128–129.

Griffiths, Arlo, Ryosuke Furui, Arlo Griffiths & Annette Schmiedchen.
[2023] 2021–2022. “The terms kuṭi and vihāra in Old Javanese epigraphy
and the modes of Buddhist monasticism in early Java.” BLS 7 (Special
volume on Epigraphic Evidence on Patronage and Social Contexts of
Buddhist Monasteries in Medieval South and Southeast Asia), pp. 143–229.
[URL]. Page 155.