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What is the explanation? Therefore your son asks you questions, teach {line 6) your son the explanation, Master, an d also the final annihilation (nirwana) of your son, teach your son the holy Law, Master!” {line 7) “Why, my son Kunjara Karna, it is a very good idea of yours, that you want to know the holy Law, and that you make bold to ask questions {line 8) on the retribution dealt out to those who are born, for there are people in ev 'dence who, though it is well-known that the means to remove stains is the holy Law, Nevertheless do not ask

b0.073, Plate no 23, Religious Life, LOr 1882, palm leaf manuscript, well preserved in a wooden box, which is decorated with a Polychrome flowery design on a dark green Nckground. Notes on religious life, incan- tNtions etc., prose, p. 1 a and 1 b. The script ls s o-called buda or gunung script, well writ- etl ’ Helft collection. The original leaves are ® x 3,5 cm. See Synopsis 40.260. Text: (P- 1 a, line 1) // a // om awighnam astu N^nia sidi // a // nihan ta saty hyaty tatyan a tJ, salty hyaiy kala rud/ra siwah hamrta, harani

saty hyaiy grhadi wisésa haranira samana, inastrèn pwa ki {p. 1 b, line 5) ta déwa guru bodaiiga, brahmana satriya ratu, wnaty kita hanitiha darmma wisésa, saty hyaity nirajana haranira samana, wruh po kita ri pasa {line 6) naran ta ya mwah aguruna, mwah amanuyuha, mwah awasiha, saiy jati wisésa hanira samana, saty hastiti harani duk wruhha pati, saity hyaty wisésa {line 7) haranira duk panyawak saty hyaiy darmma, om ta yah ta yuh ta yèh hah // o ha // om ginga nir gahga gaga pawitram pawitram ira rah d/ra paramésyara {line 8) saty hyaty kundi manik / hési sajy hyaty kutug amrtta, prnali hihulun anucènana jalrna manusa, sucinanira saty sinucèn / suci- hanira saiy iianu [cèni] Translation (tentative): {p. 1 a, line 1) Om. Let it be without obstacle, homage, success. This is the holy Essence of the Course (of religious life). Holy Kala Rudra Siwah Amrta is your name (title) {line 2) at the time you come from the plains. Holy Suksma Wëruh is your title at the time you are a youngster who begins the Course. Holy Nastiti is your title at the time you arrive on the mountain (read gunuiy, referring to the religious schools, asramas, pondoks, pasantrèns, in the hills). Holy A(r)ga Pramana is your title {line 3) at the time you are taking guid ance. Holy Kala Juna (Arjuna?) is your title at the time you have the desire to be a unku (man of religion). 1 When you are 1 For the names of groups of men of religion in pre- Islamic Java the reader is referred to the Glossary- in the fifth volume of the present author’s “Java in the XIVth Century”.