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district of Pajaij, had four or five Kings. It was the scene of many disturbances; a Dutch captain was openly killed by a Bali nese adventurer, named Surapati, a favourite of the King. In the end Kartasura was overrun by Chinese banditti; Madurese forces were called in to chase them. In 1743 A.D. King Paku Buwana II moved from Karta sura, defiled by foreign invasions, to Sura karta. Episodes of Kartasura history such as the exploits of Surapati and the Chinese troubles (in Javanese called Pacina) were described in historical texts forming part of Major Histories of Javanese Kings. Probably Kar tasura already saw a beginning of the classi cal renaissance of Javanese literature, which in the second half of the eighteenth century developed in Surakarta. The adventurous Surapati, of Balinese origin, has been very much in the public eye, on account of his spectacular career. Beginning as a slave in Batavia, he ended as a ruler of a semi-independent dominion in East Java. His life and exploits are the subject of several texts, written in different places. In East Java, where he became the founder of a dynasty of local rulers in Pa- suruhan, his fame was great. He was a contemporary of the North Bali prince Panji Sakti, who invaded the old district of Blambarjan in East Java. Panji Sakti is a hero of Javanese-Balinese Bulèlèrj local his tory (see 20.930). Balinese hegemony in the “Eastern Corner” districts was destroyed between 1760 and 1770 by combined Madu rese and Dutch expeditions. Under the present head historical texts especially concerned with the Kartasura period have been collected. As usual they

overlap the previous and succeeding periods. Manuscripts containing information on the subject have been registered in the General Index under the catchwords Karta sura, Surapati, Pacina. Javanese Babads Kartasura and Pacina were published in Java about 1870. The Babad Tanah Jawi published in Semarang, 1885-1890, gives a detailed account of Kartasura history. 26.610 Kartasura history: cod. 1829, 5545, 8775, 8932. 26.620 Surapati history, East Javanese origin: cod. 3704 (= 4098 = 10.624 = BCB prtf 74), Nst 9, KNAW 240. 26.630 Kartasura, Surapati, Pacinan his tories : cod. NBS 28, KITLV Or 259, CB 143. 26.640 Major Kartasura History, Babad Sajarah Naréndra: cod. 6562 (6 volumes, KBG coll. Brandes 87). 26.650 Mataram-Kartasura history, East Javanese origin: cod. KITLV Or 12. 26.800 Post-Kartasura Histories. After the death of King Paku Buwana II of Surakarta in 1749, a long war of succes sion began. In the end, at the suggestion of the Dutch governor of Semarang, the dominions of the Mataram King were divided between three pretenders. By the treaty of Giyanti of 1755 the Susuhunan of Surakarta and the Sultan of Yogyakarta were made Kings of equal rank, and by the treaty of Salatiga of 1757 paqéran Maijku Nagara of Surakarta was acknowledged as an in dependent ruler, but lower in rank than the Susuhunan. In Javanese this critical episode