Kedukan Bukit inscription
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Where Are the Earliest Old Malay Inscriptions?
In 683, a stone was erected outside Palembang. The script came from southern India, but the language recorded was Old Malay.
In May 683, someone erected a stone on the banks of the Tatang River outside Palembang. It is one of the earliest known Old Malay inscriptions with a clear date. It used the Pallava script brought from southern India, but instead of recording Sanskrit, it recorded Old Malay. Together with three other inscriptions from the same period — Talang Tuwo, Kota Kapur, Telaga Batu — they form a set of written archives: what kind of state Srivijaya was, what it used to govern, and what its organizational chart looked like. On the Malay Peninsula, the same language waited more than 600 years before it was left on a stone.