Materials for the Medieval History of Indonesia

1300.08.00

[August-September] [14th c.] Charter of Batur. Fragmentary. The charter describes the relationship between the king and the cult of the kabuyutan (Elder's place) of Kaliyasem. According to Bosch, Oudheidkundig Verslag 1915. Pigeaud, 1, p. 113-114. - Pigeaud, 3, p. 163-165. Pigeaud, 1, p. 113-114. Pigeaud, 3, p. 163-165.

[I. Large fragment, recto] sambarasamartthya, rakryyan apatih ring kahuripan mpu tanding, nayawinaya gunanurupantah puraraksa / mun mpu kapat çurasapatnamarddana, rakryan kanuruhan mpu pakis wairibala wirantaka, rakryan / ma ripusangkyapranaça rakryan tumenggung mpu nala saduraksanasadunikramatatpara, makapuraya / ngala kadiri mpu mada ranamaddyaryyanukulakarana, parasainyaçirah, kapalagandotpana ma / yandikopayasamartthya, saksat pranala mratisubaddaken pandiri çri maharaja siniwi ring sayawadwipama / pantara, makanaryyama sang nyayanyayawyawaharawicchedaka, sang pamget i tiruan, dang acaryya çi /

[I. Large fragment, verso] karanaçastraparisamapta, samget i kandamohi dang acaryya marmmanatha, nyayawyakaranaçastraparisa / ri dang acaryya smaranatha, nyayawyakaranaçastraparisamapta, samget i kandangan rare, dang acaryya maha / wyakaranaçastraparisamapta, samget i jambi, smaranatha, nyayawyakaranaçastraparisamapta, samget i pamua / greçwara, nyayawyakaranaçastraparisamapta, darmmadyaksa ring kaçaiwan, sang aryya harsaraja, dang / nyayawyakaranaçastraparisamapta, darmmadyaksa ring kaso gatan, sang aryyadiraja, dang acaryya / rtta wyakaranatantraparisamapta, kuneng padartthanyajña paduka çri maharaja kumonaken i para /

[II. Middlesized fragment, recto] rika ta sang hyang mandale sagara, iringen tkap sang hyang / ra kramanira ring puhun malama, tumuruna labupanaya / ni kapujan sang hyang kabuyutan i kalyasem, asuji / tkap sang hyang mandale kandawa ri talun i wasana ri sa / tapwanuwuna kalasa patarana maguta payung sa / s karuhun kadirgghyayusan paduka çri maharaja /

[II. Middlesized fragment, verso] sang hyang mandale sagara, kuneng ring caitramasa, pañcada / mandale sagara, iringen tkap sang mandale talun / para kakyatunggu batur i talun makadon enaka / duta çri maharaja, mangkana rasani panghayubagya padu / ha, kuneng tingkaha para kakyangiringa ri sang hyang mandala npa / ya pariçudda, tumutakna palupwi sang sidda puru panguni, ma /

[III. Small fragment, recto] han bhadrapadamasa, pañcadaçi çuklapak ri sang hyang kabuyutan ing kalihan kapwa tu le sa bon tra /

[III. Small fragment, verso] tan hananing wiroda ri dlaha tanpangucapakna salah kna kewala pateha ri


I. [Large fragment, recto] "...as to fortune equally rich", the Right Honourable vizir of Kahuripan Sir Tanding, "in policy and disciplinary functions most distinguished, the Royal compound's defence" ... / the Right Honourable chamberlain Sir Kapat, "of heroic enemies the annihilation", the Right Honourable chancellor Sir Pakis, "of the enemies' manful host the death", the Right Honourable ... / ... "of the enemies' number the undoing", the Right Honourable commander-in-chief Sir Nala, "in the virtuous people's defence, the unvirtuous people's suppression absorbed", / the Right Honourable vizir of Janggala and Kadiri, Sir Mada, "making the enemies obedient in the middle of the combat, the foreign warriors' headskulls' odour ... / ... as to means equally rich", manifestly the basement to consolidate the state of the Illustrious Great King who is obeyed in the whole of Java-land, / having for superiors the "arbitrator in cases just and unjust", the honoured gentleman of Tiruan, the reverend doctor ... [Shiwanatha] /

I. [Large fragment, verso] "in the lore of logic and grammar consummate", the gentleman of Kandamohi, the reverend doctor Marmanatha, "in the lore of logic and grammar consummate", ... / (the gentleman of Mangu)ri, the reverend doctor Smaranatha, "in the lore of logic and grammar consummate", the gentleman of Kandangan-junior, the reverend doctor Maha(natha) / "in the lore of logic and grammar consummate", the gentleman of Jambi, Smaranatha, "in the lore of logic and grammar consummate", the gentleman of Pamuatan, / (A)greshwara, "in the lore of logic and grammar consummate". The bishop over the Shiwaite clergy, the honoured Honourable Harsaraja, the reverend doctor / [Shiweshwara] "in the lore of logic and grammar consummate". The bishop over the Sogata (1) clergy, the honoured Honourable Adhiraja, the reverend doctor [Kanakamuni] / "in grammar and tantra (2) consummate". As to its subject, that is the order of His Magnificence the Illustrious Great King, ordering the common ... /

II. [Middlesized fragment, recto] there than the sacred-circle community of Sagara, which should be accompanied by the holy / His customs in the beginning, of old, that may descend the means to bring profit / the cult of the holy kabuyutan (3) of Kaliyasem, in the month Asuji (4) / by the sacred-circle community of Kandawa in Talun, lastly in [Sagara] / to have above the head matting, sitting-mats, to put up a [folding] sunshade / chiefly a long life of His Magnificence the Illustrious Great King /

II. [Middlesized fragment, verso] the sacred-circle community of Sagara, in the month Caitra (5), the fifteenth / the sacred-circle community of Sagara, which should be accompanied by the sacred-circle community of Talun / the common kakis (6) mount guard at the batur 7) of Talun in order that may be quiet ... / His Magnificence the Illustrious Great King. Such is the sense of His Magnificence (the Illustrious Great King)’s recommendation / as to the [prescribed] order of the common kakis (8) going to accompany the sacred-circle community / complete, to follow the precepts of the honoured siddhagurus (9) of the past /

III. [Small fragment, recto] the month Bhadrapada (10), the fifteenth of the clear half for the holy kabuyutan (11) of Kalihan ? /

III. [Small fragment, verso] not occurring any dissensions in future without anybody going to declare [him] to be in the wrong only to be peaceful in [future].


(1) Buddhist
(2) esoteric rites
(3) Elder's place
(4) September-October
(5) March-April
(6) friars
(7) terrace
(8) friars
(9) Perfect Masters
(10) August-September
(11) Elder's place

first adaptation 19.08.2010 Benjamin Berndt and Mats Homann / revised 17.12.2010 /
first draft, not proofread /