Abhayananda (779 Śaka)

Editor: Arlo Griffiths.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENKAbhayananda.

Hand description:

Language: Old Javanese.

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

Version: (ac9645f), last modified (4b5edf2).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [s]va[sti] (śa)ka-varṣ(ātī)ta (77)[9] [māsa bhadravā]da E[kā]daśa śukla⟨2⟩-pakṣa panirvan· vagai śukra tatkăla ra bavaṁ Anakvi manu⟨3⟩suka sīma savaḥ tampaḥ 4 pavaiḥ rakai vakka pu manota ⟨4⟩ savahani vihāra Abhayānanda

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (77)[9] [māsa bhadravā]da E[kā]daśa ⬦ [8+]da E[1+]daśa S • The date conversion published in Damais 1970 implies the restitution 748 māsa bhadravāda Ekādaśa.

Translation by Arlo Griffiths

Hail! Elapsed Śaka year 779, month of Bhadravāda, eleventh [tithi] of the waxing fortnight, Panirvan (of the 6-day cycle), Vagai (of the 5-day cycle), Friday (i.e., on 17 August 826 CE): that was when the wife of the Lord of Bavaṅ (ra bavaṅ anakvi) demarcated the sīma — 4 tampah of paddy field — gift of the Lord of Vəka (named) pu Manota to become the paddy fields of the Abhayānanda vihāra.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Sukarto K. Atmodjo 1969. Re-edited here by Arlo Griffiths from photogrammetry.

Primary

[S] Sukarto K. Atmodjo, M. M. 1969. The discovery of three new inscriptions in the district of Klaten (South Central Java). Bulletin of the Research Centre of Archaeology of Indonesia 8. Djakarta: Jajasan Purbakala. [URL]. Pages 18–21.

Secondary

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 d'Extrême-Orient 66. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient. Page 45, item 33.

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 76–77, items I-14.

Titi Surti Nastiti. 2018. “Watu sīma in Java: Marker stones as boundaries of privileged domains.” In: Writing for Eternity: A Survey of Epigraphy in Southeast Asia. Edited by Daniel Perret. Études thématiques 30. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, pp. 189–221. Pages 191–192.

Griffiths, Arlo, Ryosuke Furui, Arlo Griffiths and 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]. Pages 155–156.

Titi Surti Nastiti, Churmatin Nasoichah, Andri Restiyadi, Hedwi Prihatmoko, Arlo Griffiths, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, Adeline Levivier and Tyassanti Kusumo Dewanti. 2024. Laporan 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]. Page ???, section 2.3.15.