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4526 and 4528 (sequence); fragment: cod. 4527. 30.132 The Wrtta Sancaya (major kakawin, group A) is also called Cakrawaka Düta: The Cakrawaka-birds as Messengers, with reference to the romantic tale which serves as a frame The ducks are asked by a girl who has been deserted by her lover to go in quest of the truant. In fact the kakawin is a didactic poem on Indian pro sody; it contains samples of Indian metres. In Part Four of the present Synopsis (46.250) some scholarly prose texts on metrics will be discussed. The Wrtta Sancaya has been classed in the present Part Three, Belles- Lettres, on account of its poetical form and its artistic value. The poet was mpu Tana- kuay who, according to Zoetmulder, lived in the middle of the fifteenth century. He has also some lyrical poems to' his name (see 30.170). The Wrtta Sancaya was edited, translated into Dutch and annotated by professor Kern, in 1875 (reprint in “Verspreide Geschrif ten”, i.e. Collected Works, vol. 9). Poerba- tjaraka’s “Kapustakan Djawi” (p. 34) con tains some notes on the fate of the kakawin m a later period of Javanese literary history. Wrtta Sancaya: cod. 3712 (= 3950), 4686, AdKIT 1137/1, AdKIT 2751/1. 30.133 The Pati Brata (major kaka- Wln , group A) is a short moralistic poem referring to conjugal fidelity. It is also called Uddalaka or, in the Javanese-Balinese idiom,

Udyalaka, and ascribed to mpu Tanakui). Pati Brata, Uddalaka: cod. 10.130 (Krt 2148). 30.134 The Lubdhaka (major kakawin, group A) is another poem by mpu Tanakut). It contains the Indian myth of the bad hun ter who once on a dark night unwittingly strewed holy wilwa leaves over a siwa Lirjga monolith standing under the wilwa tree, and as a reward was admitted into Siwa’s divine abode. In India the myth is connected with the annual Siwa Ratri religious celebration on the 27th of February. The Old Javan ese ritual has been described and discussed by Hooykaas “Agama Tlrtha, Five Studies “in Hindu-Balinese Religion” (Amsterdam 1964). It is to be hoped that an edition of the Lubdhaka by Teeuw and Zoetmulder will be available before long. In Poerbatjaraka’s opinion (“Kapustakan “Djawi”, p. 37) mpu Tanakuq’s Royal pa tron, who in the beginning of the poem is called Girindra Waqsaja, was Kèn Ar)rok, the first King of the Siqasari dynasty. In historical literature Kèn At)rok is called a son of Siwa (Girindra). Zoetmulder has dis covered that the real name of Tanakun’s patron was Sura Prabawa. This King is also mentioned in a charter dated 1473 A.D. This renders it plausible that Tanakuj} lived in the fifteenth century. Lubdhaka: cod. 3616 (= 4296), 5023 (compendium, containing i.a. the Nagara Kërtagama — 10.511 = BCB prtf 22); with interlinear glosses: cod. 3745 (= 4298 = BCB prtf 22), 4299; fragments: cod. 4297, 4300.