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Inscription from Surabaya (1034AD)
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Taken from: The Indian Historical Quarterly by Himansu Bhusan Sarkar 1935
The prasasti describes the gift of free-holds to the karaman (community) of Baru by King Airlangga who was given protection by them one night at a critical period of his war with the king of Hasin from Tumasik (Singapore?) This stone inscription is described in the text as tamraprasasti probably because it is a copy from a copperplate record.
...mas pandai wsi pandai kangsa lawan ri whanganya mahuluna dayang hunjman nambi jenggi pujut asing salwiranya tan....
Only the karaman of Baru up to its whole extent are the sole authority over all of its possessions, of great and small sorts. Further, the people of (Ba-)ru can have two places (?) as business-markets where to regulate the sale of cotton goods, necklaces of precious metals, camara-fans of merchants, two classes (?) of red paints (?), / carrier-baskets (?), and different kinds of transactions in wares, transactions in rice and wwelya (?) Further they can obtain rent(?) from goldsmiths, ironsmiths, brass-smiths. They can also possess the dayang (prostitutes or slave girls), hunjman,(inferior class of people under an overseer) nambi,(socially inferior or foreign people) jenggi (negro slaves), pujut(negrito slaves). If all such persons do not recognize (the authority of) all the....
.....by publicly announcing from the way to go (the following, viz.,) the intruders, whether great or small, including the...............magalah, (lancers) mamanah (bowmen), magandi, (wielders of clubs) ma / tengran (flag carriers), makuda, (cavalry officers) mahaliman, (elephant riders) makarapa, (gatherers of firewood) karungan, (boar keepers) / pawdusan, (goat keepers) mahwan, (?) lambu, (?) even as jang / haturan padu pabaraka kdi(unfertile) walyan(doctor) sambal sumbul (food sellers?) hulun haji(kings slaves-out of misdeeds?-mostly farmers) jenggi (black slave) singgah(slave walking in front of his owner) mabrsi (cushion-carriers) mawa /.luwulung, (wulung = black or dark) etc, All who likewise take care of the inner regions may not have any doubt about what the place Baru stands for: they may not take all kinds of forbidden things from that place......
See note on Inscriptions in Java