Adwayawarman was the father of King
Adityawarman of
Malayapura
Pagaruyung (ڤاڬارويوڠ; also Pagarruyung, Pagar Ruyung and, Malayapura or Malayupura) was the seat of the Minangkabau kings of Western Sumatra, though little is known about it. Modern Pagaruyung is a village in ''Tanjung Emas'' subdist ...
kingdom (now in
West Sumatra
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province,
Indonesia
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) as mentioned in the
Kuburajo I Inscription.
His alias name was Adwayadwaja, as he was called in the
Bukit Gombak Inscription.
Historian Slamet Muljana suspected that Adwayawarman was also the same person as Adwayabrahma, who was mentioned in the
Padang Roco Inscription.
Adwayabrahma was the name of one of the Javanese high officials (''Rakryan Mahamantri'') of the
Singhasari
Singhasari ( jv, ꦏꦫꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦱꦶꦔ꧀ꦲꦱꦫꦶ, translit=Karaton Singhasari or , id, Kerajaan Singasari) was a Javanese Hindu kingdom located in east Java between 1222 and 1292. The kingdom succeeded the Kingdom of Kediri as ...
kingdom, who was sent to transport the statue of Amoghapasha to the
Dharmasraya
Dharmasraya, is the capital of the 11th century Buddhist polity known as Melayu Kingdom, based on the Batanghari river system in modern-day West Sumatra and Jambi, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.J.L.A. Brandes, 1902, ''Nāgarakrětāgama; ...
kingdom.
If this notion is right, Adityawarman was a king of Malayo-Javanese mixed blood.
It was told in the Javanese chronicle
Pararaton (''Book of Kings'') that
Dara Jingga
Dara Jingga, was one of the ethnic Malay, Malay Dharmasraya princess who was intended to be betrothed to Javanese King Kertanegara of Singasari after the Pamalayu expedition 1275–1293.
Dara Jingga was the older sister of Dara Petak, the consort ...
, one of the Malay princesses who was brought back to Java with the
Pamalayu expedition, was married to a Javanese nobleman (''alaki Dewa'').
His son was called ''Tuhan Janaka'' or ''Sri Marmadewa'', who finally reigned in Sumatra with the title ''Aji Mantrolot''.
However, there are no other explicit historical sources that can be used to confirm that the ''Dewa'' was Adwayawarman, or that his son ''Tuhan Janaka'' (or ''Sri Marmadewa, Aji Mantrolot'') was indeed Adityawarman.
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