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Kakawin Bhomantaka is an Old Javanese Hindu Kakawin written around the 12th century. It is one of the longest Kakawins, being composed of nearly 1,500 stanzas, with a total of about 6,000 total lines of verse.[1][2][3]
Cultural impact
editThe Bomantaka, despite being composed in Java, has been forgotten entirely from there, but still lives on in Bali, where it is embedded in the local culture, and has been continuously sung, read, performed, and transmitted.
References
edit- ^ Teeuw, A; Robson, S. O. (Stuart Owen); Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands) (2005), Bhomāntaka : the death of Bhoma, KITLV Press, ISBN 978-90-6718-253-9,
so that a tentative dating to the twelfth century seems justified, with East Java as location. This means that the text is now at least eight hundred years old
- ^ Meij, Dick van der; ProQuest (Firm) (2017), Indonesian manuscripts from the islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok, Leiden Boston Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-34811-0
- ^ Molen, W. van der (Willem); Ding, Choo Ming; ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, (issuing body.) (2018), Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay literature, ISEAS Publishing, ISBN 978-981-4786-58-4
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