Mysterious inscription

Can any of you decipher this inscription? The image was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot who believes it comes from Indonesia and that the painting style is Balinese or Javanese.

Balinese inscription

The writing looks like Balinese to me.

7 thoughts on “Mysterious inscription

  1. Although it looks Balinese, my first thought was Javanese, perhaps due to the punctuation and diacritical marks.

    d.m.f.

  2. no i remember looking at omniglot’s Balinese page, it’s Balinese for sure, now just translating it…..

  3. at fist I thought it was Javanese…
    the first line was read ‘ Si Rama dewi seta..’ (Lord Rama, White Goddess?)
    then I had difficulties reading that so I decided that it had to be Balinese… both looked awfully similar!!! grrrr… I give up! mazel tav, you guys!
    ps. Anybody reads Balinese???

  4. One thing I forgot to mention. The carving/decoration style is DEFINITELY Balinese! I’m sure of that!

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