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information on the social background of the authors of well-known texts on mysticism. The mystic songs, suluks (see 14.900), which occupy an important place in Javanese reli gious literature, are repeatedly mentioned in the vagrant students’ romances. As a rule the vagrant students extended their wanderings to many districts, and therefore the romances are not strictly con fined to East, Central or West Java. In most tales some district of Java is mentioned as the point of departure of the hero’s wan derings. In some cases (e.g. Jatiswara) the hero’s foreign origin (Palémbat), of a Cëmpa family) is mentioned in the text. Clownish personages, resembling panakawans (see 30.080), appear in many romances of this genre. They relieve the dullness of long lists and descriptions. Under the present head J atiswara manuscripts are collected. The Jatiswara has been mentioned in the present author’s Ca bolat) and Cëntini monograph (Verh. KBG vol. 72, 1933). Poerbatjaraka (“Ind. HSS.” 1950, p. Ill) made a summary of a manu script belonging to the KBG collection, lon- tar no. 536. In his opinion the Jatiswara romance is older than the Cëntini. Both seem to be of East Javanese Pasisir origin. They were also known in Muslim communities in Bali and Lombok. Jatiswara’s wanderings are explained as endeavours to find the whereabouts of his brother Sajati, who had disappeared. In the Cëntini romance also the loss of a relative is the motivation to go searching. The real contents of the books are lessons of religious lore alternating with amorous adventures. 30.781 Jatiswara romance, Javanese text:

cod. 2306, 6680 a, 6680 b, 6910 (= 6827 = BCB prtf 176). 30.782 Jatiswara romance, Javanese-Bali- nese texts, from Lombok: cod. 2216, 3608, 4204, 4205, 4206, 5072, AdKIT 1330/396, BrJN 469, Teeuw 12. 30.790 Cabolat) is another hero of a wandering students’ romance. Probably in the nineteenth century a connection was made between the Cabolat) tales and the major cycle of the Cëntini romance, and an account of Cabolat)’s wanderings, mainly through Central Java, was prefixed to the Cëntini. Cabolat) is said to be a son of a kyahi, a master of a religious community, in the Diyèi) hills, North of the ancient district of Mataram. He left his home to go wandering in search of adventures. The present Ca bolat) book, probably written in Surakarta in the last decades of the nineteenth century and in the beginning of the twentieth in imitation of the Cëntini, was made, even more than its predecessor, into a storehouse of encyclopedic knowledge of things Java nese. The principal author and editor was Sumahatmaka, of the Mai)kunagaran House. It is true, in all wandering students’ ro mances amorous adventures are related, but some Cabolat) and Cëntini episodes are very frankly erotic, verging on the pornographic. The present author’s Dutch monograph on the Cabolat) and Cëntini books (Verh. KBG vol. 72, 1933) contains summaries of the encyclopedic contents. 30.791 Cabolat) romance, Sumahatmaka: cod. 6678 I-V. 30.800 The Cëntini book is the best known of the wandering students’ romances.