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 INDIAN ISLANDERS. 215 no great distance from Kadiri, or Doho, which contained important Hindu relics, and was one of the chief seats of the Hindu worship, has inscrib- ed upon them, in plain figures, the one, the year 1241, and the other 1246, and in the collection of Sir Stamford Raffles is one brought li*om Doho, with the year 1 220. 1 have never seen nor heard of any earlier dates that could be relied upon. It is satisfactory to find how well these dates corre- spond with the more recent, and therefore r< a- sonably the more authentic, dates recorded in the memorial verses. Joyoboyo, king of Doho, is there said to have flourished in 1 II 7 of Salivana, the earliest of the temples of Prambanan, to have been constructed in 1 188 ; the most recent in Ii2l8, and the temple of Boro Budur 1260. I come now to speak of the third class of inscrip- tions, or those in a barbarous form of Javanese. One of these, in the district of Kwali, of which there is a copy in the valuable collection of Sir Stamford Raffles, contains in figures the date J 363. Inscriptions of this character are very rare, and seem all of recent date. With these may be rank- ed the dates and inscriptions on the barbarous re- mains in mount Lawu, and on some zodiacal cups, distinguished fi^om those already mentioned, by the rudeness and uncouthness of the workmanship, as well as by a considerable variation in the character, which is frequently in relief, instead of being, as