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30.561 Johar Manikam romance from East Java, Madura: cod. 2292, 4848 (= 10.700 = BCB prtf 181), 4935, 6955b, 8786, 9015, AdKIT 490/1, KITLV Or 393 (Kuta Gëdé). 30.570 The Johar Sah romance contains another tale of Persian-Arabic or igin. Like the Johar Manikam it was popular reading-matter in East Java. The text is found in several Javanese-Balinese manu scripts. Johar Sah is a younger son who, chiefly by the energy of his wife Sinarah Wulan, finally overcomes his elder brother, who first succeeded their father as King of Sa- halsah. The tale contains the ancient motive of jealousy and strife between brothers, which is noticed also in other romances be longing to the Pasisir literature (Séla Rasa, 30.750, Ahmad-Muhammad, 30.730, Abdu rahman-Abdurakim, 30.760, and Jaran Sari- Jaran Purnama, 30.830). There is reason to believe that fraternal jealousy in literature is another instance of the dichotomy of human society which belongs to the funda mental concepts of ancient Javanese philo sophy (cf. Korawasrama, 20.300 and Baron Sakèndèr, 26.200). Relevant texts have been registered in the General Index under the catchword brothers. Evidently the poet of the Johar Sah ro mance borrowed some features from older tales. The story of the lady snake who forgot herself by accepting a low-born snake as lover is found in Javanese literature also in the Aji Darma book. It is of Indian origin. 30.571 Johar Sah (or Jowarsa) romance, Javanese texts:

cod. 1827 (= 10.616 = BCB prtf 71), 7553. 30.572 Johar Sah (or Jowarsah) romance, Javanese-Balinese texts, version A: cod. 3731, 4219, 4220, 4221. 30.573 Johar Sah (or Jowarsah) romance, various Javanese-Balinese texts: cod. 3164, 4222, 4223, 10.345 (Krt 10.096), REM 1615-1, REM br 79-M 5, Teeuw 2. 30.580 The Mursada romance turns on the hero’s quest for a medicine to cure the illness of a Queen. The tale has several features borrowed from older works. It was popular in Madura; a Madurese version of the tale is known. 30.581 Mursada romance, Java and Ma dura : cod. 1819 (= 10.618 = BCB prtf 71), 9021. 30.590 Jaka Nastapa is the hero of another East Pasisir romance, probably of Grësik origin, containing miraculous adven tures of a young man of Bragëdad (Baghdad) who wins a princess of Sari Bumi. 30.591 Jaka Nastapa romance, East Java: cod. 2138 (= 6753). 30.600 A similar tale of adventures is the Jaka Prataka romance. The hero is a young man of lowly state who- wins many princesses; finally he becomes King of Mësir. The Javanese poem was made in the East Pasisir region. Relationship with some Malay hikayat seems probable. Poer- batjaraka’s “Ind. HSS.” (1950, p. 84) con tains an excerpt of a manuscript in the KBG