AJI SAKA AND THE ORIGIN OF THE JAVANESE SCRIPT

The legend began with a kingdom called Medhangkamulan, which was led by a cruel
and greedy king, and he even liked to eat human flesh. There was a wanderer who had
supernatural powers named Aji Saka, he wanted to stop the king's bad habits.

Aji Saka was a handsome and dashing warrior, who deliberately wanders into the
Medhangkamulan Kingdom. At that time Aji Saka asked his aide, dora, to wander, while
another aide, sembada was waiting for Majeti's island house. Then, Aji Saka entrusted
the Aji Saka heirloom to Sembada.

He also advised Sembada not to give Aji Saka's heirloom to anyone except Aji Saka
himself. In his wandering, finally Aji Saka managed to become a king. So he sent Dora
to retrieve the heirloom that was being guarded by Sembada.

However, because of the loyalty of an aide, Sembada did not want to give the heirloom
to Dora because he held fast to the mandate of Aji Saka. Finally, there was a battle
between Dora and Sembada over the Aji Saka heirloom.

The two of them had equal strength and supernatural powers, so that the two aides died
in the battle. Aji Saka remembered his message to Sembada, and he regretted it but
everything was already destroyed.

To commemorate the loyalty of the two adjutants, Aji Saka expressed his regret for his
negligence by making a sentence which eventually became a combination of syllables
which are now Javanese script.

The Javanese script reads:

- Ha Na Ca Ra Ka which means there is a messenger.

- Da Ta Sa Wa La means that is to fight each other.

- Pa Da Ja Ya Nya means having the same supernatural powers.

- Ma Ga Ba Tha Nga means that all died.

That is one of the risks in holding trust, even if it risks your life. The mandate given is
the obligation of the mandate holder to maintain the trust. Since then, the Javanese script
that exists today emerged.