The Javanese call these things pendeman (“something buried ).

The variety of aaicles are among others: figures (of gods, animals,
utensils) made of gold leaves, ashes, many kinds of seeds,
fiagments of gold, silver and bronze, small saucers made of bronze
or baked clay, small golden casket, small linggayoni, inscribed
gold or silver sheets, burned bones, and beads. Some kinds of
the articles are found loose inside the wall or foundation, in
between the temple stones, but mostly they are put in a variety
of receptacles, which can be made of stone, bronze, or ear-
thenware. The bronze and earthenware receptacles have the fom
of an urn, while the stone ones can have the form of a cone, a
square box with lid, or a round case with lid. They are found in
tens of places throughout Central and East Java g 2 In some cases
they are found during the restoration work of a temple. In the
case of Candi Selagriya, stone caskets are found in all four
corners of its basement. Sometimes those “enlivening aaicles”
are also found in the couayard, under the ground.
The ancient Javanese tradition of burying consecrated
articles within a sanctuary seems to conform to the practice of
the Buddhias, where “these objects usually combined with relics
or a text gave the 5tGpa its internal vivifying and spiritual force
and were part of the essential ritual of consecration or prfiixz-
pYatisjh " g28 Taking into consideration the fact of the findings of
buried articles in ancient Javanese temple precincts, an inter-
pretation can be put forward that those sanctuaries were not
only material replicas of the cosmos in its widest sense, but also
considered as the “living“ representative of the cosmos itself.