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30.461 Ménak Amir Hamza romances, ma jor texts, old Pasisir versions, called Ménak Saréas and Ménak Laré, adventures in youth, East Java and North Coast texts: cod. 3594 (= 4023, Jav.-Bal.), 4869 (— 10.674 = BCB prtf 151), 4930, 5043 (Jav.-Bal.), 7382 (W.Java), dHMvO 1250 (Jav.-Bal.). 30.462 Ménak Sulup etc.: cod. 2116 (North Coast). 30.463 Ménak Jobin or Ménak Kaos: cod. 4913 (East Java), AdKIT 2124/1 (East Java). 30.464 Ménak Kuwari and Ménak Putri Cina: cod. 1894 (East Java), 3798 (— 4025, Jav.-Bal.), 4836 (East Java), 8790. 30.465 Ménak Jamintoran and Ménak Ja- minambar: cod. 3628 (= 4026, Jav.-Bal.), 4027 (Jav.-Bal.), 4912. 30.466 Ménak Amir Hamza romance, frag ments : cod. Nst 13, dHMvO 988 (East Java). 30.480 Ménak Amir Hamza cycle, affiliated romances. Among the romances which were affiliated to' the major Ménak Amir Hamza tale the Rëqganis story became very popular. Rëqganis is a beautiful young princess who, after many vicissitudes, consents to become the wife of Amir Hamza s son. The extraordinary success of the Rei}- ganis romance, belonging to the Ménak cycle, is in Poerbatjaraka’s opinion (“Kapustakan “Djawi”, 1952, p. 118) accounted for by the popularity of the tale of the love of Pat)ji and Aijrèni (see 30.460 on the relation Ménak-Panji). In his introduction to a chapter on the Ret)ganis in “Indonesische

“Handschriften” (1950, p. 1), Poerbatjaraka mentions some interesting popular tales on the princess’s virginity which corroborate the supposition of some interrelationship between the flying flowery ReJjganis of Banjaran Sari and nymphs or goddesses belonging to autochthonous Javanese mytho logy. In consequence of its popularity the Reqganis romance in its turn was given additions or sequences. The Këndit Birayuij and Ajar Wali tales are considered by Poer batjaraka as belonging to the Rëqganis group. The hero is not Ménak Amir Hamza himself but his son Iman Sumantri, also called Rëpatmaja, parjéran Kélan of Ba^- jaran Sari. Both the tales belonging to the Rët)ganis group and the various Ménak romances registered under the next head seem to be of East Javanese, Pasisir or Javanese-Bali- nese origin. In the Central Javanese, Karta- sura and Surakarta compendiums of Ménak tales (31.060), the Rëi3ganis and related stories are not mentioned, or they occupy places of small importance. Evidently the popularity of the Ménak tales in the Pasisir districts was conducive to extending the texts. Perhaps in some cases romantic Malay hikayats served as models. 30.481 Raqganis, version A, extensive, Ja- vanese-Balinese: cod. 4029, 10.354 (Krt 10.010), 10.835, CB 6. 30.482 Retjganis, version B, Javanese-Bali- nese: cod. 3681 (= 4030), 4031, 6911. 30.483 Rei}ganis, various texts and frag ments, Javanese and Javanese-Balinese: cod. 1870 (Panaraga), 2220 (Jav.-Bal.),