Rethinking the name; The problem of the name Candrakiraṇa in the oldest Javanese prosody
The oldest written text in Javanese literature is Candrakiraṇa, one of its parts, the Amaramālā, mentions “Indra” as a king of the Śailendra dynasty. This work is essential because it includes various elements of prosody which the authors of kakawin needed to compose their literary work. For many ye...
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| description | The oldest written text in Javanese literature is Candrakiraṇa, one of its parts, the Amaramālā, mentions “Indra” as a king of the Śailendra dynasty. This work is essential because it includes various elements of prosody which the authors of kakawin needed to compose their literary work. For many years, some Javanese scholars had been debating the proper name of this text, using only one manuscript, LOr 4570, a copy of the incomplete gebang manuscript from the PNRI, which does not have a prologue or an epilogue mentioning its precise name. However, reading L 298, a lontar in the Merapi-Merbabu Collection, this manuscript clearly demonstrates that the name of this oldest text is Candrakiraṇa. This begs the question: Is there any relationship between the name and the content itself? This article presents pertinent arguments indicating that the name proposed can be accounted for both factually and conceptually. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-91b8dd6cb5d84f8889df787b57f743532023-06-30T07:33:14ZengUniversitas Indonesia, Faculty of HumanitiesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia1411-22722407-68992021-10-0122353555710.17510/wacana.v22i3.996Rethinking the name; The problem of the name Candrakiraṇa in the oldest Javanese prosodyZakariya Pamuji Aminullah0Universitas Gadjah MadaThe oldest written text in Javanese literature is Candrakiraṇa, one of its parts, the Amaramālā, mentions “Indra” as a king of the Śailendra dynasty. This work is essential because it includes various elements of prosody which the authors of kakawin needed to compose their literary work. For many years, some Javanese scholars had been debating the proper name of this text, using only one manuscript, LOr 4570, a copy of the incomplete gebang manuscript from the PNRI, which does not have a prologue or an epilogue mentioning its precise name. However, reading L 298, a lontar in the Merapi-Merbabu Collection, this manuscript clearly demonstrates that the name of this oldest text is Candrakiraṇa. This begs the question: Is there any relationship between the name and the content itself? This article presents pertinent arguments indicating that the name proposed can be accounted for both factually and conceptually.https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol22/iss3/2/indranamecandrakiraṇaprosodyl 298. |
| spellingShingle | Zakariya Pamuji Aminullah Rethinking the name; The problem of the name Candrakiraṇa in the oldest Javanese prosody Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia indra name candrakiraṇa prosody l 298. |
| title | Rethinking the name; The problem of the name Candrakiraṇa in the oldest Javanese prosody |
| title_full | Rethinking the name; The problem of the name Candrakiraṇa in the oldest Javanese prosody |
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| title_short | Rethinking the name; The problem of the name Candrakiraṇa in the oldest Javanese prosody |
| title_sort | rethinking the name the problem of the name candrakirana in the oldest javanese prosody |
| topic | indra name candrakiraṇa prosody l 298. |
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