The Javanese king that had Borobudur constructed seemed to have some relation with another lineage of kings in Java known in inscriptions as the Shailendra dynasty, which actually means “kings of the mountain” in Sanskrit.
• So kings were evidently identifying themselves with mountains and with Shiva, the god of mountains.
• We can see that the ritual importance of mountains (and especially volcanoes) was central to Javanese life in ancient times, even before Hinduism and Buddhism came to Indonesia.