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There are numerous epigraphic references to a number of Hindu buildings erected in Java. The Janggal inscription of Central Java, in Grantha (Pallava) script and Sanskrit language, of the Saka year 654 (A.D. 732), ‘refers to the reconstruction of a Śaiva temple on the model of a celebrated shrine in the holy land of Kunjara Kunja, to be identified with the Āśrama of Agastya of that name in south India.’ Another inscription found at Dinaya in Eastern Java, dated Saka 682 (A.D. 760), ‘describes the construction of a black stone image of Agastya Ṛishi.’ In another inscription of Śaka 785 (A.D. 863), in Sanskrit and Kavi (mixture of Sanskrit and Polynesian dialect), mention is made of a temple of Bhadraloka having been built by Agastya himself. In another inscription, found at the temple of Kalasan in Central Java, of Śaka 700 (A.D. 778), this temple of Tārā is stated to have been built at the command of the Śailendra, king of Śrīvijaya, in his own kingdom. ‘The great building activity continued in Central Java under the Mataram princes; for to this period of Hindu revival belongs the famous Prambanam group of temples with its magnificent reliefs depicting scenes of the *Rāmāyaṇa*.’³