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isJl4 ANCIENT RELIGION OF THE nor even by the more doubtful authority of the me- morial verses, in which the ancient chronology of the Javanese is pretended to be recorded Dr Horsefield discovered among the Hindu ruins of Panataran, in the district of Srangat, in 1816^ one of the usual stones, with a Kawi inscription, the only one in which I find any reference to an ac- knowledged tradition of the Javanese, for it men- tions more than once the hero of Javanese romance, Pa7tji Inakarta Fati, as the reigning prince, Jafig- gala the name of his kingdom, and that of his princess, by whom the neighbouring temples, ac- cording to the interpretations given to me, were constructed. It is not pretended that this in- scription has any date j but over the gateway of one of the ruins to which it belonged, are inscrib- ed in distinct and legible characters the year i ^42. The stones on which it is pretended that the early dates referred to have been taken, are exactly si- milar to this one ; many of them have been found in the site of ancient Jangala, the capital of the prince whose name is lecorded on the stone at Pa- nataran ; the inscriptions are not more defaced, the stones have not suffered more by decomposition, and the character is identically the same. From the ruins in this quarter there has been brought a' stone vessel, three feet long, on which is inscrib- ed, in legible figures, the year l'^4f6. Two zo- diacal copper cups in my possession, discovered at