Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ramayana in Java and Bali: Chapters from its Literature History -- 3. Abimanyu Gugur: The Death of Abimanyu in Classical and Modern Indonesian and Malay Literature -- 4. Drona's Betrayal and Bima's Brutality: Javanaiserie in Malay Culture -- 5. Ramayana and Mahabharata in Hikayat Misa Taman Jayeng Kusuma -- 6. The Death of Salya: Balinese Textual and Iconographic Representations of the Kakawin Bharatayuddha -- 7. The Illustrated Astabrata in Pakualaman Manuscript Art -- Index.

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.

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