N. 454. Instruction to tax collectors at Wuang Got, ca. 875 CE

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr).

Palaeographic description: Script very similar to that seen in Bulai and Marsemu.

Language: Old Javanese (kaw) [Kawi (kawi)].

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENK00454.

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSIDENK00454.xml.

Version: 2026-11-09 08:51 (6580fa0), last modified 2026-09-09 14:27 (72454d8).

Edition

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⟨1v1⟩ ╫ pavaraḥ I soĀra saṁ maṅilala dravya haji kabaiḥ kriṁ◦ paḍam·◦ pinilai◦ kataṅgaran·◦ halu varak·◦ maṁrumvai◦

⟨1v2⟩ paranakan·◦ paravat·◦ mahaliman·◦ I⊔tyaivammādi saprakāra saṁ maṅilala dravya ha⊔ji kabaiḥ Ujar saṁ pamgat·

⟨1v3⟩ makudur· majara sira I hananikana varahan· ◯ saṁ hyaṁ kudur· I vuAṁ got· vatag valā Ikana kunaṁ daiya saṁ maṅila⊔la

⟨1v4⟩ dravya haji ka⊔baiḥ tar tamatāta sira Aṅkāna◦ muAṁ saprakārani gavainya kabaiḥ madagaṁ◦ maṅulaṁ◦ paṇḍai◦ mañamvul·

Translation

As for the duty of all collectors of royal revenue: they should by no means be present here.¹ And all of their occupations: selling, buying, forging, painting black […]

Commentary

The inscription is similar in physical appearance and in content to the Marsemu charter.

Bibliography

Recently emerged on the antiquities market, the inscription is edited here for the first time from photographs of the plate.

Notes

1. We tentatively analyze tartamatāta as a double negation tar tamata ata “no, not at all”. The word aṅkāna is a spelling variant of ṅkāna. See the Dalinan charter (N. 391), 1v3–3: ājñā haji kinonakan ikanaṅ masamvyavahāra *aṅkāna hīṅ-hīṅṅana kvaihanya.

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