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Inscription (4 Copper Plates) by King Airlangga
at Keboan Pasar (1042AD)
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Kunsten en Wetenschappen 1913
Monumen: karya persembahan untuk Prof. Dr. R. Soekmono By Ingrid
Harriet Eileen
The prasasti deals with the freehold of Gandhakuti at Kambang
(King Airlingga seems to have taken the name of Aji Paduka Mpungku after becoming a hermit)
Canka year 964 inscription on back side first plate. Keboan Pasar in Residency of Surabaja
�. awawara sempal, apalangka binubut ring balai marabya(to have intercourse) dayang(prostitute), ahuluna(to own as slaves) dayaug(prostitute), pujut(negrito slave), jonggi(black slaves), amupuh(to hit them)�.
Translation:
... when his orders came down his child (son) was placed in the monastery of Gandhakuti at Kambang Cri he Aji Paduka Mpungku....... [he had the right to] have a turned couch in his pavilion, to marry (or to have sexual intercourse) with a dayang to have a dayang (=prostitute), a dark-skinned Negrito, or an East African or Ethiopian negrito (Jenggi) as slaves..... Because the son of Aji Paduka Mpungku was fixed to stay in the monastery of Gandhakuti at Kambang Cri he was allowed to meet a stri laranan pursued from her place of origin, whatever her caste....
See note on Inscriptions in Java