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SHRI SAI LEELA – APRIL 1986son to Java with 5,000 followers and six large and about 100 smallvessels. The prince ended his voyage at a port in Central Java wherehe received from his father, further reinforcement of 2,000 persons."From this period Java was known and celebrated as a Kingdom; anextensive commerce was carried with Gujarat and other countriesand the bay of Mataram was filled with adventurers from all parts.Thus began a period of rule by Indo-Javanese ruling dynasties whichoccasionally were reinforced by fresh wave of Hindu and Buddhistimmigrants. In course of time they all became children of the soil andevolved a genius which became truly Indonesian. For a few centuriesthey accepted Sanskrit but later they enriched the native languages."Of the languages which were introduced into the area in historicaltimes, it was undoubtedly Sanskrit which first exerted a measure ofinfluence. Javanese and Malay proved to be particularly susceptibleto Sanskrit influence, and in many cases it was via these two languagesthat Sanskrit influence reached other languages of the area.Sanskrit has given to these languages common grammatical particlesand moreover has enriched the lexicon in the sphere of the religion(e.g. agama, dosha), of ideas [e.g. buddhi, jiva), court ritual (e.g.upacara, asthana), of statecraft (e.g. duta, drohaka), of relationship(e.g. svamin, putra), and so forth." It is but natural that along withSanskrit the alphabet of the language in the Pallava script of thesouth and the Cupta script of the north of India became current inJava and the whole of the Indonesian archipelago and South-eastAsia.This Indian influence in Java, as in other countries of Southeast Asia,acted in two ways. One source of this influence were the Hindu and26WWW.SAILEELAS.ORG