Prayer for long life of Vijaya (7th c. CE)
Editor: Arlo Griffiths.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENKBalekambang.
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Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).
Version: (20bd983), last modified (1686864).
Edition
I. Āryā
⟨1⟩ yaẖ (kh)anati bāhu-vīryya⟨2⟩s sphaṭika-maṇi-nibha⟨3⟩(ñ ja)la(ṁ) prathita-bandhyaṁ
ab⟨4⟩ tasya (v)i(ja)[yā](gra)-nāmnaḥ ⟨5⟩ jīvitam etac ciraṁ bhavatu
cdApparatus
⟨1⟩ yaẖ khanati ⬦ [A]yam anati- BKI • The reading proposed in my 2012 article had to resort to supplying an akṣara A, required if the meter is āryā, even though it does not look as if there ever was (or could have been) any such akṣara. My new reading assumes a very rare instance of jihvāmūlīya (attested elsewhere only in the Watu Genuk inscription).
⟨3⟩ prathita-bandhyaṁ ⬦ prathita(vā)n ya(ḥ) BKI.
⟨4⟩ (v)i(ja)[yā](gra)-nāmnaḥ ⬦ [.]i [⏑–⏑]-nāmnaḥ BKI • The fracture of the stone here has brought about the nearly complete loss of the consonant sign on top of which the i marker is still perfectly visible, and with it most of the immediately following akṣaras. It is impossible to propose with certainty a restoration for the name that was once written between tasya and -nāmnaḥ, but it cannot have been the same (Bhānu) as in the Hampran inscription, and Vijaya seems to be the most plausible guess.
Translation by Arlo Griffiths
I
May this life (on earth) be long for the strong-armed [king], whose excellent name is Vijaya, who digs the crystal-clear water with an extensive construction (of a dam, bandhya = bandha?)!
Bibliography
First published by Arlo Griffiths (2012) based on the EFEO estampages n. 2039 and 2040. Re-published here with significant improvements, taking into account also the photogrammetries made by Adeline Levivier in March 2023.
Primary
[BKI] Griffiths, Arlo. 2012. “The epigraphical collection of Museum Ranggawarsita in Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia).” BKI 168 (4), pp. 472–496. [URL]. Pages 473–477, section 2, figures 3-4.
Secondary
Sri Soejatmi Satari, Ribut Darmosoetopo, Agung Sukardjo and Soesanto B.A. 1977. Survai di Kabupaten Pekalongan, Batang dan Kendal. Berita Penelitian Arkeologi 9. Jakarta: Proyek Pengembangan Media Kebudayaan Departemen P & K. Pages 10 and 32, §B.5.1a, photo 20.
Sofwan Noerwidi. 2007. “Melacak jejak awal Indianisasi di Pantai Utara Jawa Tengah.” BA(Y) 27, pp. 40–65. Pages 68, 70.
Agustijanto Indrajaya and Véronique Degroot. 2012. “Prospection archéologique de la côte nord de Java Centre: le district de Batang.” BEFEO 99, pp. 351–383. DOI: 10.3406/befeo.2012.6159. [URL]. Pages 356–357.
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