Hullo,

I’m planning to join History Council and would like to check with you first about the acceptability of this:It appears that Javanese ships reached Victoria around 700 years ago. Dharawal and Bundjalung people of NSW remember that boats arrived (‘not so long ago’ say Bundjalung elders). The twelve names in the histories fit Old Bali and Old Java languages. The Dharawal boat was a barangga and a baranggay boat is one of three types of SE Asian boats painted in rock-art near Darwin. An Aboriginal burial in Barkindji has a skull with sword-cut dated to the 1200s by ANU. There are evidently at least 100 Old Javanese loan-words in southern Australia and probably linked with royal gold-voyages, exile and whaling.

An apparent early contact gave the Awabakal NSW loanword nguraki  ’elder, wise person, cultural mentor’, Yorta Yorta Vic. ngarraga ’clever man’. Old Java language of Indonesia has nāgarika ’(Sanskrit) courtly, refined’.  नागरिक ’courtly, clever, chief of a town’.

Another title is  ’Kuller Kullup, the man who dreamed corroborree for the whole of south-eastern Australia . .all south eastern Aboriginal people knew him as a great philosopher.’ ’On Saturday, the 22nd March 1845, at an encampment east of Melbourne, near 200 strangers arrived.  The sight was imposing and affecting, especially their attendance upon that old chief Kuller Kullup, the oldest man I have ever seen among the blacks’. _William Thomas, Protector of Aborigines. 

‘Collected Writings on Indian Music by Dr. V. Raghavan is a three volume work running to over a  thousand pages. . Sri Kanchi Acharya [temple in south India] conferred the title Kavi-Kokila [poet cuckoo] for his poetic writings and Sakala Kala Kalapa for versatility.’

At a Buddhist temple in Malaya of Rajaraja I (c.1006) from south India, a Sanskrit inscription is: ‘He, this Rajakecarivarman Rajaraja, who had seen the other shore of the ocean of the collection of all sciences (kala kalapa).I’m keen to enlarge on the details to substantiate this to you. Perhaps the material can later be referred to in the HC Newsletter for email CC discussion if anyone is interested.What are my chances?

thanks

John Welch

retired amateur

Would like to talk to you about promotion of the Eureka Australia (Descendants and Supporters) Walking app. [https://www.eurekaaustralia.org.au/eureka-melbourne-democracy-walking-app.html] I am following up on an email we sent to you. It would be great if the President Eric Howard and myself could meet with you, Alicia, to discuss this.

hi, im looking for someone that can support / put together a historic exhibition in canberra, can you please refer someone? thank you

Hi, I am just wondering how we can access the recording of the History Road show? we have registered but can’t see where to watch/listen to the recording. Thanks, Kate