It is located in the Belanjong (Blanjong) Temple, where it is housed under a protective enclosure and is often decorated and partially covered with devotional cloth.

[5] The pillar is dated according to the Indian Shaka era, on the seventh day of the waxing half ('saptāmyāṁ sita') of the month Phalguna of the Śaka year 835, which corresponds to 4 February 914 CE as calculated by Louis-Charles Damais.

- (bhayebhīrovi) - - - (bhe)ri - na(bhū)pa(śa) (śi)nā(r)ā(g)atva - - 4.

- ndre(th)a r(amajasa)ptā - ptiḥ samasta-sāmantādhipatiḥ śrī kesarī varmma(deva) - - - The inscription is severely damaged, so it is difficult to make clear sense of much of the text.

This is the first known Balinese inscription in which a king (adhipatiḥ) recorded his name: Śrī Kesarī Varma(deva), mentioned in A.4 and B.13.

[8][5] The deva part of the name does not appear clearly on the stone, but it is a conjecture based on the common use of the title Varmadeva in later Balinese inscriptions.

[7] Goris, quoted by I Wayan Ardika, "believed that Gurun was Lombok, and interpreted Suwal as Ketewel beach south of Sukawati in the Gianyar regency".

[4] Pringle has argued that the mix of language and script suggests that the objective of the inscription was not to communicate locally to the Balinese people, but rather to be established as a symbol of power and authority.

[4] According to the French historian George Coedès, who was referring in general to Balinese inscriptions of the period 884-939 CE: "These inscriptions reveal an Indo-Balinese society that was independent of Java, used a dialect peculiar to the island, and practiced Buddhism and Sivaism at the same time"Some have suggested that the Blanjong pillar testifies to the connections of Bali with the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.