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JAV.-BAL. ROMANCES, VARIOUS CONTENTS

motives, found in many folk-tales and nar rative works of Javanese and foreign origin, return continuously. Influence of works belonging to the interinsular Pasisir litera ture, and well-known in the form of classical Malay prose tales, is apparent. Under the present head some relatively classic Javanese-Balinese romances are col lected. The Aji Darma tale, about the King who understood the language of the animals, is remarkable for its resemblance to Indian texts and its relationship with the Javanese Pasisir poems A13H13 Darma and Sèh Mardan (30.700 and 30.690). The metres used in the texts collected under the present head are partly tetjahan, partly macapat or mixed. Probably the ro mances date from the eighteenth or the nine teenth century, though the subject-matter is much older. 30.401 Aji Darma, in mixed tetjahan and macapat metres: cod. 3590 (= 4012 = BCB prtf 16), 4011, 4013 (= 10.504 — BCB prtf 20). 30.402 Ajar Pikatan, in tcrjahan verse: cod. 3619, 3667, 4010 (= BCB prtf 10). 30.403 Durma, in macapat metres, first version: cod. 3657 (= 4227), 3696, 3734, 3821, 4225 (= 10.484 = BCB prtf 13), 4226, 4228, 4229. 30.404 Durma, variant version: cod. 3671 (= 10.483 = BCB prtf 13). 30.405 Kërta Samaya, in teijahan verse: cod. 4267 (= BCB prtf 11), 4268. 30.406 Mënur Wilis, in tërjahan verse: cod. 4238 (= 10.501 = BCB prtf 18). 30.410 Later romances, folk tales. In the nineteenth century, beside

the tradition of Old Javanese prose tales (see 20.100 and 30.215) and Old Javanese kakawins (see 30.000 and 30.190), also' the line of classical poetic romances (30.400) was continued. The subject-matter of later Java nese-Balinese romances is often borrowed from native folk-tales; moreover repetitions of scenes found in older texts are frequent. Under the present head later, probably nineteenth or even twentieth century Java nese-Balinese poetical romances are collected. Some are related to lyrics, others are comical and farcical; eroticism often is in evidence. As a rule the authors used common macapat metres, but some poems are in tetjahan verse. Balinese poets wrote several compa rable humorous and farcical romances, based on folk-tales, in Balinese. In the present Synopsis of Javanese literature the tales which are wholly Balinese, however inter esting, are not discussed. The Javanese-Balinese texts contain many Balinese words and expressions. The Èndèr tale seems to be partly of Blambarjan origin. The district of Blambarjan or Banuwatji, East Java, opposite the island of Bah, was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ruled by noblemen who had close connections with the Balinese Courts. 30 411 Atjluij Smara, lyric erotic romance: cod. 3829 (= 3897-11), 4059 (= 10.499 = BCB prtf 18), 9631 (Krt 1112). 30.412 Aréka Suruh Waiji, in tetjahan verse: cod. 3865 (= BCB prtf 16). 30.413 Ratyda Lèlètjèh: cod. 3784-11 (= 3984-11 = 7222 = 10.473 = BCB prtf 11). 30.414 Lubat) Kori (Gulubaij Kori): cod. 3725 (= 3975-IV), AdKIT H 968.