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belong to the province of Belles-Lettres. Nevertheless the Maqkunagaran Princes or dered some histories of their own House to be written, evidently in order to balance the great Surakarta babads of the Susu- hunan’s Court scholars. The remarkable Maqkunagaran Diary, 1780-1791 A.D. is of small consequence for political history. It is valuable, however, as one of the few remaining specimens of Court Diaries, which probably in former times were kept regularly by officials (often women) of Royal households. They were never meant to be published and probably after some years they were forgotten and disappeared. The Maqkunagaran Diary is preserved as a consequence of its being ver sified by a lady who cultivated writing poetry as a pastime. Manuscripts containing relevant texts have been registered in the General Index under the catchwords Maw,ku Nagara and Prav, Wadana (another name of the princes of the Maqkunagaran House). 28.210 History of the Princes Maqku Na gara of Surakarta: cod. 6781, 8986 no. 1 (Babad Panam- baqan vol. II). 28.220 Maqkunagaran Diary: cod. KITLV Or 231-232. 28.400 Pustaka Raja, Raqga Warsita, Surakarta. The last of the great scholars of the nineteenth century Surakarta renaissance of letters, Raqga Warsita, was pre-eminently an encyclopedist. He collected old tales and traditions and arranged them in voluminous books, written in prose. It seems likely that he knew some eighteenth century Pasisir Universal His

tories and Books of Tales, which were writ ten in verse. Rarjga Warsita’s books on mythology and ancient history, which he called Pustaka Raja, Books of Kings, im press the reader in a remarkable way. The events of myth and epic history are dated consecutively according to a chronology, solar and lunar years, of Raqga Warsita’s own invention, and so the Pustaka Raja makes an impression of being historically reliable, which it is not. Raqga Warsita’s chronicles of Creation, cosmogony, myth and epics have parallels in the literatures of other peoples. His, at first sight preposterous, idea of dating all tales is to be considered as a consequence of his thoroughly Javanese belief in an all- pervading Order, which should also be made visible in myth and ancient history. Raqga Warsita’s Pustaka Raja, and the introductory Paramayoga, on cosmogony, were published in Surakarta and Yogyakarta between 1884 and 1892. At that time they were very much appreciated in the circles of Javanese literati. Epic history, the Pandawa tale (according to Javanese wayaq tradition), was far from finished in the five Pustaka Raja volumes. Therefore epigones, chiefly Sumahatmaka, of the Marjkunagaran House, wrote sequences in the same style, called Pustaka Raja Madya and Pustaka Raja Puwara or Wasana. Raqga Warsita’s Pustaka Raja inspired the Surakarta playwrights who wrote the wayai) madya and wayaq gëdog pakëms (see 31.120 and 31.130). Some of his tales were versified by later authors (see 31.340). Manuscripts containing relevant infor mation have been registered in the General Index under the catchwords Rav,ga Warsita and Pustaka Raja.