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flourishing period of the Pasisir culture, di dactic-moralistic texts were often inserted into narrative poems. The authors followed the example of pre-Islamic predecessors. The Old Javanese Korawasrama and Warga Sari (20.300 and 30.245), for instance, are full of lessons of all kinds. Islamic Pasisir liter ature produced several lengthy narrative poems with didactic insertions such as the Cëntini, the Cabolat}, the Jatiswara and the Jaya Lëtjkara WulaQ (see 30.780 and 30.820). Under the present head a compendium of moralistic lessons, called Yuda Nagara, is listed. Though it contains a tale with Koja Jajahan and a King, who is his master, as principal characters, by far the greater part of the book is taken up by lessons on statecraft, resembling the Niti Praja (17.120). Yuda Nagara may be a corruption of Sanskrit udaharana: example. Poerba- tjaraka discussed an old Koja Jajahan text in his “Kapustakan Djawi” (1952, p. 96). Some relationship with positive Muslim didactic-moralistic texts (see 16.500), also belonging to the seventeenth or eighteenth century Pasisir literature, is likely. In the General Index relevant manuscripts have been registered under the catchwords Yuda Nagara and Koja Jajahan. 17.310 Yuda Nagara, Koja Jajahan, didac tic poem on statecraft: cod. 1817, 1820. 17.400 Moralistic lessons, songs, suluks (still group F, 14.000). In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries moral istic-didactic poems were written by many authors in Central Java. Some of these texts show a close relationship with mystic songs, suluks (see 14.900). They contain references

to mysticism and theology. The frame of a conversation between a master and his pupil, or a husband and his wife, is found both in the suluks and the moralistic-didactic poems. Under the present head moralistic texts which are closely connected with mystic suluks have been collected. In some respects they remind one of the didactic poems on theology and law, which have been discussed under a previous head (16.000, the work of Ahmad Ripat}i). The lessons of Sèh Tékawardi were much studied in Central Java in the nineteenth century. The poem, was published in Sura karta, together with the Wulai) Rèh of King Paku Buwana IV. Just like the mystic suluks, the present moralistic-didactic poems are often found incorporated in large compendiums. Codexes containing relevant texts have been listed in ithe General Index under the catchwords Tékawardi, Surya Laga, Nata Pandita, Jabar Sidik, etc. 17.410 Sèh Tékawardi, moralistic lessons in verse: cod. 5774, 5782 c, 5792. 17.420 Surya Laga, Nata Pandita, lessons in verse, given to his wife: cod. 3360 (= 3995), CB 7. 17.430 Sèh Jabar Sidik, lessons in verse given to his wife Mutmainah: cod. 8596. 17.440 Dèwi Maléka of Rum: cod. 7562 (— 10.770). 17.450 Sèh Majënun, Ni Liyëp Sajati: cod. 7554. 17.600 Moralistic poetry of the pujaijgas of Surakarta (still group