Kuburajo Inscription, also called Kuburajo I Inscription, is one of the many inscriptions left by King Adityawarman of central Sumatra.[1] The inscription was found in Kuburajo village, Lima Kaum district, Tanah Datar Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia in 1877 besides the main road from Batusangkar city to Padang city.[1] The inscription was registered by N.J. Krom in Inventaris der Oudheden in de Padangsche Bovenlanden ('Inventory of Antiquities in the Padang Highlands', OV 1912: 41).[2] The inscription is written in Sanskrit,[1] and consists of 16 lines.[2] This inscription was lost in 1987, but was rediscovered.[1]
When first publishing about the inscription in 1913, H. Kern initially thought that it was a memorial tombstone (Dutch: grafsteen) of King Adityawarman; based on the name of the discovery village Kuburajo (kubur = tomb, and rajo = king).[3] F.D.K. Bosch refined this interpretation in Verslag van een reis door Sumatra ('Report of a trip through Sumatra', OV 1930: 133-57), based on Minangkabau language, to the "king's fort" (kubu = fort).[4]
The inscription begins with referring to Adwayawarman as King Adityawarman's father. The king's title as Kanakamedinindra ('Gold Land Lord') was mentioned;[1] and he was likened to Kalpataru, a wish-fulfilling divine tree.[5] Adityawarman was also stated as descended from the Kulisadhara dynasty, and was seen as a manifestation of Lokeshvara and Mai.. (possibly Maitreya).[1]
The inscription text according to Kern's transcription, as follows:[6]
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