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46.370 Candra Sanjkala, by Jaga Kartika: cod. 8982 no. 1. 46.380 Pasat}kalan, Javanese-Balinese poem on chronograms: cod. 10.145. 46.390 Pasasat}kalan, Javanese-Balinese chronograms: cod. 5109-III (= BCB prtf 3). 46.450 Study of Literature. Though historical exactness is the weak point of many Javanese books, some Javanese and Balinese authors showed an interest in the dates of the old texts which they studied. In fact several Old Javanese kakawins contain notes referring to the name of the poet and his Royal patron, and the year of the composi tion. So for later authors it was not difficult to make lists out of those data. Probably in some cases the authors’ own opinions or guesses were added. Beside the lists referring to Old Javanese kakawins, mentioned under the present head, there is a list referring to later Javanese literature, of the Islamic period. It is in serted in C. F. Winter’s “Javaansche Zamen- spraken”. Probably the informant was L asadipura, the authority on Javanese litera ture of his time (the period of the Surakarta classical renaissance, in the beginning of the nineteenth century). 46.460 Prastuti niit} kakawin: cod. 5108, 5109-1V (= BCB prtf 3). 46.470 Pawatëkan 113 kakawin, on chrono grams of Old Javanese poems: cod. CB 62 (— BCB prtf 26). 46.480 Wawatëkan I13 kakawin: cod. 4672. 46.500 Encyclopedias. In all periods

of the history of Javanese culture there have been authors who set themselves at collecting information on all sorts of subjects and who compilated their findings in bulky books. As a result Javanese literature has a number of encyclopedical works (though as a rule not alphabetically arranged), and several religious, historical and belletristic works are full of encyclopedical information not related to the leading motive of the book. The numerous books of notes and compendiums, found in all major collections of Javanese manuscripts, often are private encyclopedias on a small scale, filled with all pieces of information which the owner thought in teresting. Sometimes encyclopedias and dic tionaries are combined (see 45.250). Probably in the pre-Islamic period the Parwas of the Mahabharata and the puranic literature of Indian origin suggested Java nese authors the idea of making compila tions of mythical and epical tales (see J. Ensink, “The Old Javanese Cantaka Parwa “and its tale of Sutasoma”, BKI, in prepara tion, and 20.300). In the Islamic period the universal histories, beginning with Adam, were combined with the older tradition to make the monumental Kandas (see 23.100). In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the production of comprehensive works on Javanese history, containing encyclopedical information on many subjects, was on the increase (the Major Babad, 27.000). The Cëntini and the Cabolaij, originally simple tales originating in the circles of vagrant Muslim students of religious lore, expanded inordinately so as to fill many volumes (see 30.780). In the second half of the nineteenth century Rai)ga Warsita, the last of the pa j an,gas of Surakarta, wrote his Pustaka