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catchword Brata Yuda refers to Javanese texts belonging to a later period. 30.011 Bharata Yuddha, Balinese tradition, complete text: cod. 1880, 3580, 3651 (= 4113). 30.012 Bharata Yuddha, Balinese tradition, fragments and selections: cod. 2207, 2208, 3060, 3591, 3629 (= 4115), 3959, 4114, 4116, 5275, 10.532 (- BCB pntf 27), 10.533 (= BCB prtf 27), 10.534 (= BCB prtf 27), CB 12, REM 16-569, KHA 0 1, AdKIT A 4846/e.

30.013 Bharata Yuddha, Balinese tradition, fragments and selections, with interlinear glosses: cod. 3578 (= 4121), 3732 (= 4120), 4117, 4119, 4122, 4123, 4124, CB 11, AdGUB 52. 30.014 Bharata Yuddha, Javanese tradition, called Brata Yuda kawi: cod. 1788, 2107, 2108 (lithographic fac simile), NBS 8.

30.020 Old Javanese kakawins, major poems (group A).

Under the following heads the remaining Old Javanese kakawins will be discussed in chronological order, as far as possible, fol lowing Poerbatjaraka’s paragraphs in his “Kapustakan Djawi” (see 30.000). This book contains summaries of the contents of the kakawins. Several poems were edited and translated into Dutch by the same au thor between 1920 and 1940. Tentatively the kakawins discussed under the heads 30.020—30.134 have been distinguished, as major and older poems (group A), from those belonging to the next group (30.135 30.169), because probably the latter, called minor kakawins (group B), though still written in Java, are younger. A third group of kakawins (30.190—30.214), associated with epic prose tales (30.215—30.221), seems to be of Balinese origin, though writ ten in the Old Javanese literary idiom (group C). A forthcoming book by professor Zoetmulder, dealing with Old Javanese liter

ature, will contain explicit information on the kakawins. The third Old Javanese epic poem which for centuries occupied an important place in Javanese literature is the A r j u n a Wiwaha, Arjuna’s Nuptials. Unlike the Ramayana and the Bharata Yuddha, which are closely related with the two principal cycles of semi-historical tales of ancient India, the subject-matter of the Arjuna Wiwaha and other kakawins to be discussed under the following heads is borrowed from minor Sanskrit epic literature. The Indian sources where the Javanese authors found the plots of their poems are mostly unknown to us. It is possible that Javanese poets with fertile imaginations combined some Indian tales, amalgamating them with ancient stories originally belonging to Javanese mythology. The Arjuna Wiwaha contains notes to the effect that the poet, called mpu Kanwa,