Tarumanagara

Tarumanagara, also called Taruma, was an early Indianised Sundanese kingdom in western Java, in and around the modern Jakarta-Bogor-Bekasi area. Its history is reconstructed from seven stone inscriptions and from Chinese records of the Sui and Tang periods. The inscriptions, written in Sanskrit in Pallava script, date from the fifth century and commemorate King Purnawarman, the kingdom's best-known ruler. They record his devotion to Vishnu and his public works, including a canal that straightened the Cakung River and drained coastal land for agriculture and settlement. The kingdom's position near the Sunda Strait gave it command of a strategic sea route between Sumatra, India and China. Its capital, Sundapura, has not been located with certainty; it lay somewhere between North Jakarta and Bekasi. Tarumanagara is generally dated from about 358 to 669, when it was divided into the Sunda and Galuh kingdoms. Its inscriptions are the earliest known written records of Hinduism in western Indonesia.