On 2nd September, Yesterday.Sg, an initiative by the Museum Roundtable, supported by the National Heritage Board, launched Heritage TV or HTV in short. The first episode introduces viewers to the Singapore Stone.
The Singapore Stone was part of a sandstone slab at the foot out Singapore River, that was destroyed by the British to widen the passageway into the river. The current small merlion near Fullerton Hotel is where the slab was first discovered. 
W.H Read, who spent almost 46 years in Singapore, says that;
I remember a large block of the rock at the corner of Government House, where Fort Canning is now; but during the absence of the Governor at Penang on one occasion the convicts requiring stone to replace the road, chipped up the valuable relic of antiquity, and thus all trace of our past history was lost.
It was destroyed when the sea-wall was built around Fort Fullerton, where the Club, Post Office, and Master Attendant’s Office now are. It used to be decorated with flags and offerings when at the entrance of the Singapore river. The immediate consequence of the removal of the stone, an act of vandalism, was the silting up of the river. I have been told that an inscription in similar characters, which I always understood were “cuneiform,” still exists (1884) in the Carimon Islands.
There are several legends and myths abound the Singapore Stone, one of the popular one is the folktale of Badang.
Badang is said to have thrown a massive stone to the mouth of the Singapore River. On Badang’s death, the Rajah sent two stone pillars to be raised over his grave “at the point of the straits of Singhapura”.
What are my thoughts then? I think this inscriptions could probably represent the source of eternal wealth and strength. Since the Rajah commissioned the two stone pillars with inscriptions on it to house the grave of Badang, an act normally reserve for Kings & Queens, since Badang is a common peasant, there must be something supernatural about it. Anyone who can successfully translate the inscriptions, unlocks the mysterious powers and the wealth of the old Rajahs. With the inflation that we are seeing now, I wonder if that wealth is enough to buy over Temasek? 
Oh well, since no one has successfully translate it, my thoughts could very well be true. Who knows what the inscriptions really meant? 
The Stone, a part of 3 remaining fragments, is now displayed at the National Museum of Singapore, was designated by the museum as one of 11 “national treasures” in January 2006, and by the National Heritage Board as one of the top 12 artifacts held in the collections of its museums. The others were sent to the Royal Asiatic Society’s museum in Calcutta (now known as the Indian Museum).
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