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to survive, even though they were not rela ted to Royalty. Under the present head Banumas histories are collected. References to more manu scripts containing information on the subject are to be found in the General Index under the catchword Banumas. In several respects some local historical legends and genealogies of rulers of Central Javanese districts (Pa- citan etc.), which are registered under a separate head (24.800), are comparable with the Banumas histories. The latter have been collected under the present head on account of their relationship with Sundanese histori cal tales and genealogies. 23.910 Pasir history, Purwakërta, Banumas, in verse: cod. 2196, 7569. 23.920 Pasir history, Sindula, in prose: cod. 8992 no. 2 (Babad Pasir Sindula). 23.930 Cahyana mythical history: cod. 7543. 23.940 Wirasaba history, Banumas, in verse: cod. 6427, 7718, 7469. 23.950 Banumas history, in prose: cod. 8992 no. 1. 23.960 Genealogies and histories of Banu- tftas families: cod. 6686 (Danurëjan, Yogyakarta). 24.100 Local histories and gene- bogies of Bantën. In the sixteenth century the two westernmost districts of Java on the shores of the Java sea, Jakarta ari d Bantën, were made into Muslim states V Javanese conquerors coming by sea from Cërbon. The district of Jakarta, on the river Ciliwut), belonged to the ancient Sundanese kingdom of Pajajaran. In the beginning of

the seventeenth century Jakarta was con quered by the Dutch. The rapid expansion of the Dutch East India Company of Batavia, which was founded near the site of the Java nese rulers’ residence, impressed contem porary and later Javanese authors. They found explanations of the miraculous expan sion of Dutch power by composing quasi historical tales, associating the traders from oversea with personages belonging to ancient West Javanese or Sundanese mythology, and so incorporating the foreigners in their in digenous scheme of cosmic and social order. Cannon, the terrific weapon introduced by the foreigners and soon coveted by Javanese rulers, occupied a place of some importance in the tales. So did Sakèndèr or Kasèndèr, i.e. Alexander the Great. Persian-Arabic mythic tales of the adventures of the great King who went to foreign countries on a quest for the source of eternal life were introduced into the Archipelago by Indian Muslims Evidently Javanese quasi historical tales of the Dutch expansion were not composed until the expansion was a generally accepted fact, at the end of the seventeenth century. The tales are found in Central Javanese histories written in the eighteenth and nine teenth centuries. Though containing ele ments of West Javanese Pasisir origin, and probably Sundanese mythology (Pajajaran), they are not registered under the present head, because authentic old West Javanese texts are lacking. They are listed under the head early Mataram histories (see 26.200). Some West Javanese Pajajaran histories mentioned in 23.700 contain references to those tales. The other West Javanese district which in