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30.734 Ahmad-Muhammad romance, Java- nese-Balinese text, from Bali or Lombok, called Amad, in macapat metres : cod. 1877, 3673 (= 3944), 3719, 3757, 3766, 3804 (= 4019), 4016, 4017, 4018, 4020, 4021, 4022, 8998, 10.307 (Krt 10.104), AdGUB 61, AdKIT A 5791. 30.735 Ahmad-Muhammad romance, called Amad, Javanese-Balinese text in tëqahan verse: cod. 4015 (— 10.477 = BCB prtf 12). 30.740 The Ahmad Hanapi romance seems to be little known. The tale is fairylike and phantastic. The connection with the Malay hikayat Muhammad Hanafiya, which contains the history of Muhammad’s grand sons Hasan and Husain, if based on more than the similarity of names, seems not very close. 30.741 Ahmad Hanapi romance in verse, from B anten: cod. 7507. 30.745 Another romantical tale in verse from West Java, the story of S a h a d prince of Budalsah, is imperfectly known from a damaged manuscript. Some connection with other romances, either Javanese, Sundanese or Malay, seems quite possible. 30.746 Sahad prince of Budalsah romance in verse, from Cërbon: cod. 7719 (= 10.763). 30.750 The Sela Rasa romance seems to be typically West Pasisir. In other regions of Java the tale is not found. Its connection with Islamic tales is evident; many episodes refer to wars against unbelievers. Cëmpa, i.e. Champa, in Further India, is mentioned.

In Javanese historical tradition the very first propagators of Islam in Java are said to have been natives of Cëmpa . The Séla Rasa tale turns on strife be tween brothers, like the Ahmad-Muhammad romance and several other books of the time (see the General Index, under the catch word brothers and 30.570). 30.751 Séla Rasa romance: cod. 1824 {— BCB 217), 10.803. 30.760 Another typically West Javanese romance is the tale of Abdurahman and Abdurahim. Again it is a tale of a pair of brothers who went on a quest (see 30.570). A Sundanese tale of the same name is known. 30.761 Abdurahman Abdurahim romance: cod. 10.801, DFT S 277-10. 30.765 Abu Nawas is the hero, a clever joker, of a cycle of stories well-known in Malay and other literatures. Evidently the Javanese version was made after a Malay model. In his “Ind. HSS.” (1950, p. 121) Poer bat jaraka gives an epitome of a manu script of the KBG collection, cod. Br. 10, which was written in the district of Banumas. 30.766 Abu Nawas romance: cod. 11.018-III. 30.770 J a k a Saléwah, the Half-and- Half Black-and-White Man, is the hero of a West Javanese romance containing Muslim religious lessons. The motive of the tale is a quest for Allah. Hooykaas’s “Balische “Verhalen van den Halve” (1958) turn on a similar quest but they belong to non-Islamic Balinese literature. This similarity is an in-