Belanjong pillar
The pillar was established by king Sri Kesari Warmadewa, the 1st king of the Balinese Warmadewa dynasty and bears a long inscription where the king describes his military campaign in the island. It is located in the Belanjong Temple, where it is housed under a protective enclosure, and is often decorated and partially covered with devotional cloth.
The inscription is written in both the Indian Sanskrit language and Old Balinese language, using two scripts, the Nagari script and the Old Balinese script. The Old Balinese in pre-Nagari script in on one side of the pillar, while the Sanskrit inscription in Pallava-derived old Javanese script (also called Kawi script) is on the other side. The mix of language and script suggest that the objective of the inscription wasn't to communicate locally to the Balinese people, but rather to be established as a symbol of power and authority.The pillar testifies to the connections of Bali with the Sanjaya Dynasty in Central Java. According to the inscription, Sri Kesari was a Buddhist king of the Sailendra Dynasty leading a military expedition, to establish a Mahayana Buddhist government in Bali. The inscription also tells about the success of military expeditions of offshore islands, either Nusa Penida or faraway Maluku. This is the 1st known inscription in which a Balinese king recorded his name.
Two other inscription by Kesari are known in the interior Bali, which suggest conflicts in the mountainous interior of the island.
| The pillar is dated calendar, in the year 836 saka. | according to the Indian Saka - |
| The pillar was only remained where it was initially | discovered in 1932, and has found. |
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