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WISDOM OF THE SAINTS, GUNUit} SCRIPT

60.075, Plate 25

>ts origin from the male and female sexual or gans (read baga instead of bawah), white a nd red producing Kama Ratih in their sphere. 60.075, Plate no 25, Wisdom of the Saints, LOr 2262-H, palmleaf manuscript, fragment. Notes on incantations and religious specula- t ' on , Partly pre-Islamic. Antiquated Central Javanese idiom. The script is so-called buda ° r gunut} script, written rather irregularly and boorish, avoiding ligatures. Several cha racters are given dots above and below, Whlch means that they are mistakes,, to be Passed over. In the transliteration they have . n Put between square brackets. Collec- hon “Rijksinstelling”, Leiden, 1878. The 0ri gmal leaves, not numbered, are 39x3,5 Crn - See Synopsis 14.210. Text: (line 1) punika kawruh paqéran kajoran / armulya ulës in, nurip / komala wudul irj nurip j W ul niulya haduwènni nurip /o/ i, ’ kawruh pahéra (fine 2) n/ban/tën / urip / lager}, sail ^ ma sukma di [ha]lah hallah mérad Jo/ i, ’ kawruh panéran carbon / bumi ptën ka.13 Igmantat},] siyai} ginantai) i ja (line 3) lantara sirna nil} raga pati ilat} *^njah ilat} /o/ i, ti, kawruh pahéra hadi jj'bn; luwai} godot} sukma pasébannii} sukma Ur sukma mulya /o/ kawruh pané (hne 4) r an/kali jaga; da[ta]ttallali si- ^ tallah ya uk / maripatullah /o/ kawruh ^^neran kudus /; kuwut} hawai} ha war} si- e nni | t} raga cita nanarasak hati ni sukma /o/ Cr ra nslation, tentative. The meaning of the hyptic sentences is far from clear. abl lHe ^ ^ le w ’ sc J° nl °f the vener- e lord of Kajoran: magnificent is the

covering of Life; sweet is the protruding interior (? issue ?) of Life; issue (read wudul instead of wul) and magnificence are (to gether) in possession of Life. 1 Thus: the wisdom of the venerable lord (line 2) of Ran ten is: Life endures (read lai}get} instead of lager}) as long as the Soul; the Soul is a Light of God, it ascends (to Heaven). Thus: the wisdom of the venerable lord of Cërbon is: The dark globes which by day are floating in (line 3) the water are (like) the perishing of the body; Death is a disappearance; they are pricked and disappear. Thus: the wis dom of the venerable lord of Ijadi Lat}u is: (compared with) a pit filled with leaves for the soul, or an audience-hall for the soul, to be preferred is: the soul in magnificence. 2 The wisdom of the venerable lord (line 4) Kali Jaga: the Essence of God and the Qualities of God, these are the real (objects, read hak, hakk, instead of uk) of God’s Knowledge. The wisdom of the vener able lord of Kudus: the rainbow in the sky is illuminated by the sun (read rawi instead of raga): the idea penetrates into the inner most of the soul. 3

1 Probably this sentence refers to the male and female components of Creation. 2 Probably this sentence refers to the insignificance of worldly conditions compared with the bliss felt by the faithful. 3 Beside the six paqérans (walis, apostles of Islam) who are mentioned on this side of the palmleaf (Kajoran, Bantën, Cërbon, Radi Lai}u, Kali Jaga and Kudus), there are four more, listed on the reverse side: the pal}érans of Alas, Bonai}, Ma- jagu 13 and IJampèl Dënta, all with their own maxims. It is a remarkable fact that Giri is missing. Alas is seldom found in lists of walis. It is unusual to make a distinction between Radi Laqu and Kali Jaga.