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Sloane MS 3480
- Record Id:
- 040-002115867
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000711.0x0000b5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 3480
- Title:
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Fragment of Arjunavijaya
- Scope & Content:
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Arjunavijaya
A broken piece of palm-leaf, with text in Old Javanese written in Balinese script, containing parts of stanzas 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 (but not of stanza 13) from canto 10 of the Arjunavijaya (or Arjunwijaya), a court poem (kakavin or kakawin) authored by Mpu Tantular in the second half of the 14th century, describing a scene of confrontation between Śiva’s attendant Nandīśvara and the demon Rāvaṇa.
This fragment corresponds with the critical edition published by Supomo (1977 I: 109), with English transation (1977 II: 203-204).
Identified by Ida Bagus Komang Sudarma, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan and Arlo Griffiths, June 2018.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002115867 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 3480 : Fragment of Arjunavijaya - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[3490]/040-002115867
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folio of palm-leaf
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Old Javanese
- Scripts:
- Balinese
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1753
- Date Range:
- 16th century-mid 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Dimensions: 185 x 20 mm. 1 f. of palm-leaf (broken); only the right-hand half of the original leaf remains.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Sloane collection, 1753.
- Publications:
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M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p.177.
S. Supomo. 1977. Arjunawijaya: A Kakawin of Mpu Tantular. 2 vols. (Bibliotheca Indonesica 14.) The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)