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registered in the General Index under the catchword Kanda. 22.910 Sërat Kanda 1Ü13 Rijjgit Purwa: cod. 6379 (KBG 7, 9 volumes, Major Sërat Kanda, Central Pasisir), 11.081. 22.920 Sërat Kanda Bandut): cod. 1868 (= BCB prtf 39, Grësik ms). 22.930 Sërat Kanda and Babad Mataram: cod, 6378, 6483 (KBG 120), 6601 (KBG Brandes no. 28), 6603 (KBG Brandes no. 37), 8498, NBS 158. 23.100 Compendiums of Mytho logy, Pasisir culture. Several texts going under the name Sërat Kanda, Book of Tales, contain only mythical and epic tales. They have no connection with Javanese his tory. In fact these texts in particular could be called. Sërat Kanda nil) Riijgit Purwa, Book of Tales of the Wayat) Purwa Theatre. The connection with mythology is evident. Under the present head specifically myth ological Sërat Kandas are collected. Most of them contain Arjuna Sasra Bahu, Rama and Pandawa tales. They show some rela tionship with the great pre-Islamic epic kakawins Ramayana, Bharata Yuddha etc. (30.000 ff.) and with the eighteenth and nineteenth Surakarta epic poems Sërat Rama, Brata Yuda etc. (30.900), which are modernizations of Old Javanese originals. Javanese mythological Sërat Kandas are remotely comparable with the Javanese- Balinese Purwa Sahara, a compendium of epic tales found in Old Javanese kakawin literature (see 30.346). In details the tales of Pasisir Sërat Kandas often differ from the classical epics. In Rama tales the differences are striking (see 31.067). No doubt mythological Sërat

Kandas have an affinity with the traditions of professional story-tellers and performers of wayai) theatre plays. The Aji Saka texts which are also listed under the present head contain mythic tales referring to various Pasisir districts, Mëdar) Kamulan, and the Këndëi) hills, between East and Central Pasisir, occupy an im portant place in the tales. Relationship with Sërat Kandas registered under the preceding head, in particular with the Bandui) text, is evident. In some Aji Saka tales a remark able blending of Old Javanese and Muslim elements (Muhammad and his followers) is apparent (see 22.000). It is difficult to dis tinguish between Central Pasisir and East Pasisir texts. The cultural centre of the East Pasisir districts, Grësik (Giri), exercised a strong influence on Central Java. 23.110 Mythological Sërat Kandas begin ning with Adam (mostly of Grësik origin): cod. 4084 (= 10.671 = BCB prtf 148), 4926 (Madura), 4946 (Sajarah Pat)iwa), 6380 (KBG 122), 6381 (KBG 59), 6382 (KBG 144), 6383 (KBG 376), NBS 108 (= NBS 20), DFT S 240/280-32, 33 (old Dutch translation). 23.120 Mythological Sërat Kanda beginning with Watu Gunui): cod. 4085. 23.130 Mythological Sërat Kandas, wayan tales (East Pasisir origin) : cod. 6580 (KBG 14), REM 3065-1. 23.140 Aji Saka, mythic tales, beginning with Sindula, Mëdat) Kamulan: cod. 1803, 2041, 2099, 2307, NBS 23 (= NBS 120 = 10.682 = BCB prtf 166), KITLV Or 359. 23.150 Aji Saka, mythic tales, Winter’s prose version: