According to the Balinese literatures, the term might possibly rooted from two Sanskrit words, namely Āṉanta (अनन्त, lit.

Antaboga meditated and created the world turtle named Bedawang from which all other creations sprang.

[1] According to Sundanese myth, Antaboga was also responsible for the birth of Dewi Sri, the rice goddess of Java and Bali.

According to Wawacan Sulanjana, Dewi Sri emerges from the tears that turned into an egg, shed by Antaboga.

[1] Antaboga is possibly derived from the actual native Javan dragon snake (Xenodermus javanicus), originally and traditionally venerated in Javanism folk religious belief, widely practiced by the local Javanese since pre-Islamic era (before the Islamization of Demak Kingdom, which later transformed as Demak Sultanate).