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The copper writing support called "paripih", as mentioned in Sanghyang Sasana Maha Guru. There are several interesting old Sundanese copper plate inscriptions dated from ca. 15th century AD known as Prasasti Kabantenan.

image:  Leiden Library, Shelfmark = KERN E43 – recto
But, I'm not sure if these copper inscriptions are the 'paripih.' mentioned in SSMG.  I found interesting word comparison in Balinese language > peripih, (meripih) wear an amulet, wear a magic belt <
It possibly has linguistic relation, of course, but the context of its function in the old Sundanese language is not quite clear.
The other two writing supports: steel and iron are called "preka" and "gotraka". I haven't investigated them but I really curious about their meaning possibility. Do you have any idea?
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Day 3 with "Kawih Katanian"

Here is the transliteration of the page from yesterday's post.
I found at least four variety names of the rice matched in the Dictionary of Sunda Language of Java. Even the descriptions are not detail, but at least I can get information about the color and 'beard'.

You can read the dictionary here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Diction…
The four names are included as the "pare huma", the rice that grows in dry field! This is important evidence that Sundanese residents have been cultivating various types of rice in the past. Mostly, in the "huma" not "sawah".
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Let's continue the story...

The deity then hatched the egg, and somehow the hatched egg became a baby girl. She was given a name "Sang Srikandi". She grew up become a beautiful young girl. There was no one in the country to match her beauty.
This part is very well-known in the Sundanese oral literature. There is a Sundanese oral story called 'carita pantun', that also tells about this story, but off course with some differences. The title is Carita Pantun Sri Sadana, or Sulanjana.
We can find more Sundanese manuscripts contain the story of Dewi Sri in the later centuries. Most of them written in about 19th or 20th century. Written on paper, with Pegon (Sunda-Arabic) script or Latin, mostly entitled as Wawacan Sulanjana, Srisadana, or Wawacan Dewi Pohaci.
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From now up to several days forward, I will talk about "Kawih Katanian", an old Sundanese manuscript contains a myth of Goddes of Rice from the site of Kabuyutan Ciburuy, West Java. The manuscripts from this collection have been digitized by Andrea Acrip on the project of @bl_eap
The text written on lontar palm leaves with old Sundanese script and language. There's no explicit date written, but from the usage of the script and language, I can say it produced some times at the pre-Islamic period in West Java. Probably from 15-16 century AD.
Sorry for the typo, I mean Andrea Acri. You can find his project of digitising the collection of Ciburuy manuscripts through this link: eap.bl.uk/project/EAP280
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