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Raja Purwa (Book of Ancient Kings), which afterwards was continued by admirers (see 28.400 and 31.341). Approximately at the same time, by order of the grandvizir of Surakarta, Padma Susastra (Wira Pustaka) compiled a really modern, alphabetically arranged encyclopedia, the Bahu Warna. References to texts containing encyclo pedic passages are to be found in the General Index under the catchword encyclopedia. 46.510 Cantaka Parwa, Old Javanese en cyclopedia and compendium of tales: cod. 3742 (= 4574), 3787 (= 4576), 4572 (= 10.460 prtf 8), 4573 (= 10.459 = BCB prtf 8), 4575, 4577 (= 10.461 = BCB prtf 8), 4578 (= 10.462 = BCB prtf 8), 6435 (Cataka Parwa), 9286 (Krt 389), 10.178 (Krt 2211, fragment, Kapi Parwa). 46.520 Canda Kirana, Old Javanese San skrit and mythologie dictionary: cod. 4570 (= 4571 = BCB prtf 80). 46.530 Bahu Warna by Padma Susastra (Wira Pustaka), Surakarta : cod. 6681. 46.600 Study of Old Javanese Charters. For a long time Javanese in scriptions on stone slabs and copperplates, found in many places all over the island, have drawn the attention of European tra vellers. Javanese and Dutch scholars tried to read and to translate them since the beginning of the nineteenth century. At first their attempts were unsuccessful, and not until the last decades of the century the most important texts were deciphered by Dutch scholars who collated the script with South Indian scripts (see 45.000). The principal collections of transcriptions of Old Javanese

charters are: “Kawi Oorkonden”, by A. B. Cohen Stuart, 1875; “Oud-Javaansche Oor konden”, by Brandes, edited by N. J. Krom, Verh. KBG vol. 60, 1913; and “Inscripties “van Indonesië” (= “Prasasti Indonesia”, transcriptions and translations by de Casparis and by Poerbatjaraka), 1940 and 1950-’56. A number of comparable charters, but writ ten in Old Balinese instead of Old Javanese, were found in Bali. They have been deci phered and edited by R. Goris ( Prasasti “Bali”, 1954). Some Old Javanese or Javanese-Balinese manuscripts contain references to ancient charters. They have been listed in the General Index under the catchword charters. The original purpose of the authors and makers of Old Javanese charters has been discussed under the head Historical Docu ments, in Part Two of the present Synopsis (20.000). Decrees and charters issued by various Javanese Kings, either originals or copies, have been registered under the head Regu lations (48.200). Those which were issued in the Islamic period are mostly called undar^-undarys and piyagents. Under the present head manuscripts containing notes written by the first scholars who tried to decipher and to translate Old Javanese char ters are collected. 46.610 Notes on Old Javanese inscriptions on stone slabs and copper-plates, attempts to decipher them: cod. 2026, 2180, 2245, 2261 A and B, 2264, 3093, 3094, 5000, 6945, KITLV Or 41/42. 46.620 Concordance of Cohen Stuart’s Kawi Oorkonden (1875): cod. 3276.