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More manuscripts referring to the subject have been listed in the General Index under the catchwords Sundanese and genealogy. 23.710 Carita Sunda, in prose: cod. 3359 (= 10.695 = BCB prtf 175). 23.720 Sulanjana, Sundanese rice myth: cod. 7731. 23.730 Pajajaran history, Siliwatp : cod. 6706, 7571, NBS 336. 23.740 Panjalu history, Pajajaran: cod. 7551. 23.750 Genealogies and histories of noble Sundanese families: cod. 5616, 7399, 7431, 7434, 7437, 7445, 7505, 7539, 7706, 7761, 11.016. 23.760 Sajarah Japura, Pajajaran: cod. AdKIT 1471/2. 23.770 Ukur history, Mataram charters : cod. 7858. 23.780 Kitab Panca Kaki, ancient history, from Sumëdat): cod. 6499, 7444. 23.790 Kanda, epic tales, wayaij, West Java: cod. AdKIT 2725/1. 23.800 Notes on eschatology and genealogy, West Java: cod. 7458, 7708, 7711, 7724. 23.900 Local histories and gene alogies of Bahumas districts. In antiquity Sundanese local rulers in the highlands of West Java had connections with local chieftains residing in the hilly districts of the basin of the river Sërayu, which emp ties itself into the Southern Ocean at Cilacap. In the time of Dutch administration these districts, south of mount Slamat, were united and made into the Residency of Bahumas.

The Bahumas idiom is different from Sunda nese, but it also shows some striking differ ences if compared with the neighbouring Javanese idiom to the East. Culturally the people of Bahumas, forming rather small groups in the hilly region, were influenced by their neighbours on the north and north west sides, the Tëgal and Cerbo-n Javanese, and by the powerful Javanese Kings of Cen tral Java, whose authority they were forced to acknowledge. In pre-Islamic Javanese texts the Ba humas districts are not mentioned. Some chieftains, converted to Islam in the six teenth century, became founders of local dynasties ruling small isolated dominions in the hills. On account of their isolation and the paucity of their resources they were left alone by the Mataram Kings, and so in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were, to a certain extent, independent. In some cases the local gentry caused their family traditions and genealogies to be put in writing, and the books were preserved by the following generations. In many other districts of Java local histories and genealo gies disappeared in consequence of social decay of the rural gentry, caused by wars and other disturbances. The Bahumas local histories, kept in reasonably good order by members of old families are unique in Javanese historical literature. In this respect they are comparable with the gene alogies of Sundanese noble families men tioned under the preceding head, and with the genealogies of Balinese families and with the genealogies of Balinese families and social groups mentioned in 21.200. In the three regions it was the economic and politi cal circumstances which allowed old families