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to retreat to Sumatra afler hcavy fighting and defeat, like the armed struggle of Indonesia against foreign rule.

(v)    Thcre was no “Sailendra period” in Java, and Naerssen (p.249)

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is right in prefacing it with the adjective ⁴⁴ so-callcd “. Besides the Sailendras, was the dynasty beginning with Safijaya, and olher kingdoms too may have flourished.

(vi)    Rakai Pikatan has been equated with Kumbhayoni, who belonged to the Lunar Dynasty. The mother of the Sailendra King BSlaputra, Tara by name, was from the Soma-kul£nvaya (Nalanda Ins.). The Soma-kula and Sailendra-vart>śa had matrimonial ties_t and they co-operated in thcir religious foundations.

(vii)    Sacrcd foundations were constructed in holy places even in the territory of another king. Installation of a Lińga or the building of a vihora did not ipso facto iinply that the place of its location belonged to the donor. For example, kings of several Indian States built templcs at the holy city of Malhura, without any claim to terrilorial rights. Like the Ganga-Yamuna Doab, the Kedu plain was bounded by the rivers Opak and Praga, and the second river Praga was joined by the River Serayu. The siluation is similar to Prayaga (mod. Allahabad) which is the conlluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the now lost Sarasvati. Regions bclwecn two rivers, the mesopotamian areas, were important cultural centres in ancient times.

XIV. BHUJAYOTTUŃGADEVA

Early or middle of the ninth century

Bhujay - ottuńgadeva

Casparis 1956 :2. 175-206

The Candi Plaosan Inscriplion in Pre-Nagari mentions a royal name

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Bhujay-olluńgadeva. He may be a Sailendra king as their abhiseka names have the element tuńga or uttuńga (Casparis 2.180 n.25). This name is not known from any other source. Casparis, who has read this inscription, wriles “the transcribed portion of this linę seems sufficiently certain” (2.192n.69). The Buddha tempie (jinamandira) constructed by him was regularly worshipped by persons from the Gurjara country (st.14):

satata -gurjara -desa -samagatais

sugata - bhak ti-bh&ra -prana ta is ^w -/

(linę broken)

^vvv- tkriyate jinamandira m //

The approximate dale of the inscriplion is ⁴⁴ the First half or the middle