Archipel 101, Paris, 2021, p. 131-207 1. Introduction Old Sundanese is known to us today thanks to the survival of documents using this language, whether written on leaves of the gebang or lontar palms, on bamboo strips, on tree bark (daluwang), on metal plates or on stone. 1 The number of such metal or stone inscriptions in Old Sundanese is quite limited, when * Staff philologist at Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia (Jakarta), current- ly PhD student at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and associated member of UMR 8170 Centre Asie du Sud-Est (both in Paris). ** Professor of Southeast Asian History at the École française d’Extrême-Orient (Paris) and member of UMR 5189, Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques (Lyon). *** The research for this article was begun shortly after we had met each other in Jakarta in 2012, but put on hold again in the course of 2014, and then resumed only in 2019 when Aditia Gunawan came to Paris for his doctoral studies as member of the project DHARMA “The Domestication of ‛Hindu’ Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia,” funded from 2019 through 2025 by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no 809994). On the project, see https://dharma.hypotheses.org. We gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments on drafts of this article received from Atep Kurnia, Véronique Degroot, Tom Hoogervorst, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan and Titi Surti Nastiti. 1. Edi S. Ekadjati 1996; Munawar Holil & Aditia Gunawan 2010; Aditia Gunawan & Griffths 2014; Aditia Gunawan 2015; Aditia Gunawan & Evi Fuji Fauziyah 2021. 1. Edi S. Ekadjati 1996; Munawar Holil & Aditia Gunawan 2010; Aditia Gunawan & Griffths 2014; Aditia Gunawan 2015; Aditia Gunawan & Evi Fuji Fauziyah 2021. aDitia Gunawan* & arlo GriffithS** Old Sundanese Inscriptions: Renewing the Philological Approach***