Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature

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Edited by Choo Ming Ding, Willem van der Molen

Publisher:: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Online publication date:: July 2018
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9789814786584

Series:: Nalanda-Sriwijaya Research Series
Subjects:: Philosophy of Religion, Religion

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Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have existed since around the ninth and tenth centuries. In the following centuries new versions were created alongside the old ones, and these opened up interesting new directions. They questioned the views of previous versions and laid different accents, in a continuous process of modernization and adaptation, successfully satisfying the curiosity of their audiences for more than a thousand years.Much of this history is still unclear. For a long time, scholarly research made little progress, due to its preoccupation with problems of origin. The present volume, going beyond identifying sources, analyses the socio-literary contexts and ideological foundations of seemingly similar contents and concepts in different periods; it examines the literary functions of borrowing and intertextual referencing, and calls upon the visual arts to illustrate the independent character of the epic tradition in Southeast Asia.

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Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Abbreviations
pp vi-vi

About the Contributors
pp vii-ix

1 - Introduction
pp 1-5

2 - The Rāmāyaṇa in Java and Bali: Chapters from its Literary History
pp 6-30

3 - Abimanyu Gugur: The Death of Abimanyu in Classical and Modern Indonesian and Malay Literature
pp 31-58

4 - Drona's Betrayal and Bima's Brutality: Javanaiserie in Malay Culture
pp 59-99

5 - Ramayana and Mahabharata in Hikayat Misa Taman Jayeng Kusuma
pp 100-137

6 - The Death of Śalya: Balinese Textual and Iconographic Representations of the Kakawin Bhāratayuddha
pp 138-180

7 - The Illustrated Asṭabrata in Pakualaman Manuscript Art
pp 181-217

Index
pp 218-227

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series
pp 228-230

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