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Alas), 10.280 (Krt 2368, Tatwa Sawarj- SUWU13). 20.670 Batur Kalawasan, mythic tale, cos mogony : cod, 9079 (Krt 8), CB 56, BCB prtf 41. 20.680 Tutor Dalem Gadii}, cosmogony and legendary history: cod. 9366 (Krt 581). 20.690 Kanda Catur Bumi, cosmogony and legendary history: cod. 9092 (Krt 30), 9190 (Krt 186), AdKIT 820/1. 20.700 J avanes e-B aline se ballads. Majapahit history was fascinating for people whose ancestors had been subjects of the Divine Kings, In Bali the Pararaten, the popular book of history, was in part rendered into verse. Selected episodes were made into historical-romantic poems, comparable with ballads. Some ballad poets were rather un scrupulous as to historic truth, they were striving after effect. For that reason his torical-romantic kidwiys have small value for historians. Probably historical romances and ballads, and some Muslim religious didactic poems (see 14.600 ff.) are among the first texts written in native Javanese metres, called teniba-f3 macapat or tembav, dlik (see 00060). It is not unlikely that the first ballads were already put in writing at the end of the Majapahit period, still in Java. Apparently the ballad genre developed out of the reper toire of professional story-tellers, whose tales in prose were called pamancavyihs. The texts have been studied and partly edited by professor Berg (see 20.500). In the nineteenth century Balinese au thors wrote geguritans in macapat metres,

modernized versions in the Javanese-Bali- nese literary idiom, or in the vernacular Balinese, of Old Javanese texts. These geguritans, dating from a later period than the present ballad literature, and more belle- tristic, will be discussed in Part Three, Belles-Lettres, of the Synopsis (30.320). The difference between the Javanese-Bali- nese ballad literature and the nineteenth cen tury historical novels in verse, which were written by Surakarta authors, will be dis cussed in 31.300. 20.710 Rai}ga Lawé, Wijaya Krama, his torical-romantic poem on an episode of Maja pahit history, macapat verse: cod. 2218 (= 5539), 3141, 3601, 3870-11 (- BCB prtf 9), 4454, 4455, 4456, 4457, 4458, 4459, 4460, 4461, CB 121. 20.720 Kidut3 Sunda, historical-romantic poem on an episode of Majapahit history in tërjahan metre (Kadiri, version A): cod. 3953 (= BCB prtf 9 = CB 122). 20.730 Kidui) Sunda in tërjahan and ma capat metres (version B): cod. 3864, 4254. 20.740 Kidm} Sundayana in macapat metres (version C): cod. CB 78. 20.750 Tatwa Sunda, prose tale dealing with an episode of Majapahit history: cod. 3142 (= BCB prtf 9), CB 108. 20.760 Harsa Wijaya, historical-romantic poem on the beginnings of the Majapahit kingdom, in tei}ahan metres: cod. CB 72 (Krt 455 and 1266). 20.900 Local history and legends of Bali. Balinese families coming into prominence, sometimes even becoming local rulers, often tried to prove their rights by