Mpu Monaguṇa's Sumanasāntaka an old Javanese epic poem, its Indian source and Balinese illustrations /
"Mpu Monaguṇa's early thirteenth century epic poem Sumanasāntaka is a vernacular rendering of Kālidāsa's story of Prince Aja and Princess Indumatī told in the Raghuvaṃśa. In it the poet exploits his source narrative to describe and comment on the Javanese world of his times. In Mpu Mo...
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| Language: | English Kawi |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2013.
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| Series: | Bibliotheca Indonesica / Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-Land- en Volkenkunde,
v. 36 |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction / by S. Supomo
- pt. 2. The Kakawin Sumanasāntaka : text, translation and comments / edited, translated and annotated by S. Supomo, Peter Worsley, and Margaret Fletcher
- pt. 3. Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṃśa and the Kakawin Sumanasāntaka / by Thomas M. Hunter
- pt. 4. Myths of kingship : journeys and landscapes in the ancient Javanese imaginary / by Peter Worsley
- pt. 5. Balinese paintings of the Sumanasāntaka / by Peter Worsley.