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13.450 Krama Pura, rules of behaviour in temples: cod. 9822 (Krt 1503). 13.460 Krama Satya, moralistic treatise for women: cod. 9978 (Krt 1805). 13.470 Pandawa tutur, Dharmaraja’s les sons, Old Javanese prose: cod. 5344 (= 10.402 = BCB prtf 2). 13.480 Parta Jnana Sura’s lessons, reli gious speculation: cod. 9220 (Krt 247). 13.490 Roga Sahara, on catur yuga, mor alistic : cod. 9395 (Krt 657). 13.500 Tatwa Gama, didactic, social order: cod. 10.030 (Krt 1927), 10.085 (Krt 2048). 13.510 Tatwa Bhuwana, Javanese-Balinese moralistic treatise: cod. 3899-III (= 10.465 = BCB prtf 8). 13.700 Didactic religious and moralistic poetry (still group D, 11.000). In Old Javanese and Javanese-Bali nese literature moralistic lessons were often versified. Romantical tales in verse were con sidered suitable frames for moralistic lessons and didactic treatises. The Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana abound with lessons and didactic passages, and the Java nese authors always had the example of the great Indian poems before them. In the course of time Javanese and Java nese-Balinese authors produced several mor alistic and didactic poems. Some of them, containing a more or less moralistic tale, have been registered in Part Three, Belles- Lettres, of the present Synopsis (30.275).

Those moralistic poems which do not con tain tales serving as frames for the lessons have been listed under the present head. They are not amusing in the way of narra tive poems; in some cases their poetical value is considerable, however. Relation ship with the prose collections of moralistic maxims based on Sanskrit slokas which have been discussed above (13.100) is evident. In the Islamic period of Javanese cultural history they were rewritten and adapted. Javanese scholars of the Pasisir Courts studied the Niti Sastra, also called Niti Sara, considering it a summary of ancient wisdom in the field of ethics. Javanese versions have been discussed separately under an other head of the present Part One (17.000). The Old Javanese Niti Sastra was edited, translated into Dutch and annotated by Poerbatjaraka (KBG, Bibliotheca Javanica vol. 4, 1933). The moralistic-didactic kakamin called Nirartha Prakërta was edited and translated into Dutch by Poerbatjaraka (BKI vol. 107, 1951). According to' the learned editor it was written about 1450 A.D. in the district of Surabaya. 13.710 A Niti Sara, Niti Sastra, Old Ja vanese moralistic-didactic poem: cod. 3976 (= BCB prtf 22), 4350, 9397 (Krt 662 ; Sara Samuccaya). 13.710 B Nirartha Prakërta, Old Javanese moralistic-didactic poem: cod. 5023-VI. 13.720 Darma Putus, didactic kakawin: cod. 5235. 13.730 Darma Sarana, didactic kakawin, made in Bali: cod. CB 58 (= BCB prtf 26).