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tO' Java, with many instructions and prophecies. Abu Bakar will come to Java (Japara, Mantirjan, central North Coast) to introduce the santri dul prac tices (dikir, singing, dancing). Aji Saka chooses one servant (sekabat) out of two. His name is Ana (the beginning of the Javanese alphabet). The other one, Alip, is Muhammad’s servant. Ana and Alip kill each other because of Aji Saka’s knife (parrot), and disappear. Aji Saka and Muhammad, looking for their ser vants, meet again. They find on the place of the combat under a tree, called Ajir by Muhammad, two leaves, one with the 30 Arab letters and the other with the 20 Javanese ones written on them. Aji Saka flies over the ocean to' Java: list of the Javanese mansas (months) and constellations (lintai3, astronomy, p. 38), and a list of birds. He arrives in Java in the year 1 (konir wuk datanpa jalu) and settles in the Render} hills (North Coast), as King of Mëdar; Ka- mulan. Transcription of a text written in Arabic script, bad spelling. Origin: Central North Coast, 19th century, based on old popular traditions. 2. (p. 42-43): Sai}kala, years, with reference to mountains of Central and East Java, in verse; 3. (p. 43-49): Tale of Ratu Baka, in verse. The king orders his two young servants Sir and Wén da to pull out a warirpn tree each and to plant them, one on mount Lawu and the other on mount Mërapi, to enclose on both sides the Royal residences of Surakarta and Ma- taram. Moreover Sir is ordered to dam