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cod. 5023-1V (which is the only available manuscript = KITLV Or 350). 30.125 Arjuna Wijaya (major kaka win, group A). In the Nagara Kërtagama the poet mentions some more of his poems i.a. Sakabda or Saka Kala. The latter name is found as the name of a short kakawin in an Amsterdam collection. As the contents of that poem make its fourteenth century origin improbable, it has been registered under a later head (30.210), dealing with younger kakawins written in the Old Javanese literary idiom by modern, perhaps nineteenth cen tury, Balinese authors. In the reign of King Hayam Wuruk of Majapahit, beside the Nagara Kërtagama some other kakawins were written. They are of the usual narrative epic kind. Their au thor is called Tantular, probably a pen-name, like Tanakuij and Prapanca. Mpu Tantular was interested in Buddhist literature. Whether he belonged to a prominent eccle siastic family, like his contemporary Pra- pai}ca, is unknown. The Old Javanese Arjuna Wijaya by mpu Tantular was much appreciated by Ja vanese authors. In the Pasisir period it was incorporated in the Sërat Kanda compen diums of tales. The well-known Arjuna Sasra Bahu or Lokapala (see 31.020) of the eigh teenth century is an adaptation of the four teenth century kakawin. The subject-matter is found in the Uttara Kanda, the last book of the Sanskrit Ramayana (see 30.170). It is the struggle of the epic heroes Arjuna Sahasra Bahu and Parasu Rama. An un known twelfth century Kadiri Court poet wrote a poem on the same subject (see 30.065). Interrelationship of the two Old

Javanese kakawins is as yet unproven. 30.126 Arjuna Wijaya, Balinese tradition, complete or nearly complete: cod. 2210, 3137, 3634 (= 4068), 4065, 4066 (= 7228 = BCB prtf 22). 30.127 Arjuna Wijaya, Balinese tradition, fragments: cod. 4069, 4985, 5133. 30.128 Arjuna Wijaya, Javanese tradition: cod. 2048. 30.130 Suta Soma, Purusada Santa (major kakawin, group A). Mpu Tantular also wrote the Suta Soma kakawin, with reference to the contents called Puru sada Santa, the Man-eater Appeased. It is a Buddhist edifying tale, showing a remote resemblance to the Indian Suta Soma jataka. In the Old Javanese kakawin the hero, a Bodhisatwa incarnation, offers his own body as food for the man-eating demon King Kalmasa Pada, who in the end is converted. The Suta Soma tale was well-known to Javanese authors of the Majapahit period. It is mentioned in other Old Javanese and Javanese-Balinese texts. The General Index contains references to relevant manuscripts. The Old Javanese kakawin will be edited, translated and annotated by Ensink. The editor has noted considerable discrepancies between the plots of the Indian Purusada Santa jataka and the Old Javanese kakawin. Evidently the Javanese poet had ideas of his own on the subject (see J. Ensink, “The “Old Javanese Cantaka Parwa and its tale “of Sutasoma”, KITLV, in preparation). 30.131 Suta Soma, Purusada Santa, kaka win, complete or nearly complete text: cod. 2211, 3716 (= 4525), 4522 (= 7226), 4523, 4524; with glosses : cod.