Editing Balinese script (section)

=== Language-script and Date ===
The inscription is written in both the Indian [[Sanskrit]] language and [[Old Balinese|Old Balinese language]], using two scripts, the [[Nagari script]] and the Old Balinese script (which is used to write both Balinese and Sanskrit).<ref>Haer, p. 275</ref> The Old Balinese in pre-Nagari script is on one side of the pillar, while the Sanskrit inscription in Pallava-derived old Javanese script (also called [[Kawi script]])<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=5TOBKsLvjjkC&pg=RA1-PA46 A short history of Bali by Robert Pringle p. 46]</ref> is on the other side.<ref name="Cvxw67f7-8wC p.141">[https://books.google.com/books?id=Cvxw67f7-8wC&pg=PA141 ''The people of Bali'' Angela Hobart p. 141]</ref>

[[File:Sanur_Belankong_Pillar.jpg|thumb|center|Pillar found in Sanur, and Balinese script found]]

The pillar is dated according to the Indian [[Shaka era]], on the seventh day of the waxing half ('saptāmyāṁ sita') of the month Phalguna of the ''Śaka'' year 835, which corresponds to 4 February 914 CE as calculated by Louis-Charles Damais.<ref name="damais47">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/43734001 Louis-Charles Damais (1947) ''Études balinaises: I. La colonnette de Sanur'' p. 127]</ref><ref name="damais59">Louis-Charles Damais (1959) "Ouvrages d'Études Indonésiennes", ''Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient'', '''49''', 2, pp. 685-686.</ref>