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 216 ANCIENT RELIGION OF THE in the more ancient monuments* carved in the stone. The date in the ruins of Katto in Lav/u is Ibdd ; those in Sukuh, in the same mountain, are 1861 and I36b. A zodiacal cup, of the inscrip- tion of which my friend, Sir Stamford Uaffles, has afforded a drawing, has the date 136l, and one in my own possession i 3^0, Those now enumerated are the only authentic dates which have come with- in my knowledge, until the connection of the Javanese with the Mahomedans commenced. The dates contained in these more modern inscrip- tions are also corroborated by a reference to the memorial verses of the corresponding era of Javanese history. Mojopahit is, in these, said to have been founded in l^^yi? just about the era that the seven reigns of its princes would afford, at the usual allowance of twenty years for a reign. The date assigned to the remains of a tank at Barowo is 1808, and to that of another at Mangabel 1852. The reader will not fail, on comparing the dates of this class of inscrip- tions with the last, to notice a singular and import- ant fact, which will be applied in another place in tracing the history of the ancient religion of the Javanese, that the antiquities of Java, during the interval of more than a century, do not afford a single authentic date. ^'ith inscriptions of the class now mentioned, I may rank an ancient manuscript found at Talaga,