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4508, 4509 (= 10.650 = 10.656), 4510 (= 7217 = 10.657), 4511, 4512, 6582. 30.245 The W a r g a Sari tale is also located in Java. The hero is a wandering student who' visits many masters in holy lore and in the end reaches Majapahit, the capital. The poem seems to contain a streak of allegory: it is the tale of a quest. The Warga Sari might be considered an early specimen of the vagrant students’ romances. The Jatiswara, Cabolaq and Centini poems are the best known books of that genre in Javanese literature of the Islamic period (see 30.560 and 30.780). The vagrant students set out for foreign parts on a quest for wisdom. In this respect they are comparable with the heroes of the Sri Tanjui} and Nawa Ruci poems and the like, who are sent out on a quest for medicines or spiritual treasures. In the Warga Sari poem a tëqahan variety of Javanese verse, which was used by Bali nese authors of the seventeenth and eigh teenth centuries, is applied. It is not impos sible that there existed an earlier version of the poem, in a simpler metre, but if so, nothing of the kind has come down to us. 30.246 Warga Sari: cod. 3584 (= 3922), 3614 (= 7219 = BCB prtf 171), 3713 (= 4649 = 10.490 = BCB prtf 13), 3915-11 (= 10.497 = BCB prtf 16), 4650, 8384. 30.247 Warga Sari, variant Balinese ver sion : cod. 3724, 4651, 4652, 4653. 30.250 Nawa Ruci. The tale of Bhlma’s adventures during his quest for the Water of Life, sent by Drona, and his meeting with Déwa Ruci in the ocean, was considered as an account of a profound religious mystery.

It is mentioned in the Cabolèk discussions on Islamic mysticism (see 15.200) side by side with the Arjuna Wiwaha (Minta Raga, see 31.000). Both tales have modernized ver sions in the literature of Java proper and of Bali; they are discussed separately under the heads Bima Suci, Déwa Ruci and Minta Raga (see 31.040). The Islamic legend of Sèh Malaya (24.570) shows a remarkable resemblance to the Bhima tale. In older Javanese-Balinese literature the Nawa Ruci tale is known in a prose redac tion and in taqahan verse. The prose text, together with a probably recent kawi miriw, redaction (see 30.904), has been edited and translated into Dutch by Prijohoetomo (“Nawa Ruci, Middel-Javaanse prozatekst”, 1934). In the opinion of Poer bat jar aka (“Déwa Roetji”, in Djawa, vol. 20, 1940) both the kawi miriw, text and the prose text are secondary versions, based on an imper fectly known old poetic text, written in simple verse. 30.251 Nawa Ruci, Tatwa Jnana Nirmala, prose: cod. 4342, 4343, 4344, 5096, 5178, 5372. 30.252 Nawa Ruci, prose, concise version: cod. 3921 (compendium), 4345. 30.253 Nawa Ruci, terjahan verse: cod. 3620 (= 4346, di^dai) verse), 3799 (= 4347, Kadiri metre). 30.254 Awa Ruci, Javanese-Balinese poem, macapat verse: cod. 9636 (Krt 1129). 30.255 The S u b r a t a poem contains the tale of adventures of a wandering student. The available text seems to have been writ ten in Bali in the eighteenth century. It may be an adaptation of an older book. It contains