Mpu Monaguṇa's Sumanasāntaka : an Old Javanese epic poem, its Indian source and Balinese illustrations / edited, translated and annotated by Peter Worsley, S. Supomo, Thomas M. Hunter, Margaret Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century, author.

Contributor:

Worsley, Peter, editor, translator.

Supomo, S., editor, translator.

Hunter, Thomas M., editor, translator.

Fletcher, Margaret (Margaret V.), editor, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Bibliotheca Indonesica ; 36.

Bibliotheca Indonesica / Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 0067-8023 ; volume 36

Language:

English

Kawi

Subjects (All):

Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century. Sumanasāntaka.

Monaguna.

Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century.

Sumanasāntaka (Monaguna, Mpu).

Java (Indonesia)--Civilization.

Java (Indonesia).

Bali Island (Indonesia)--Civilization.

Bali Island (Indonesia).

Civilization.

Indonesia--Bali Island.

Indonesia--Java.

Local Subjects:

Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century.

Physical Description:

714 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

Includes the text of Sumanasāntaka in Kawi with English translation; critical material in English.

Summary:

"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 Monaguṇa's Sumanasāntaka the authors offer an edited text and translation of Mpu Monaguṇa's epic kakawin and extensive commentary on the editing of the manuscripts and history of the poem and its story, the relationship between the Old Javanese poem and Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṃśa, the way in which the poem imagines the lived environment of ancient Java in the early thirteenth century and Balinese painted representations of the story of Prince Aja and Princess Indumatī"-- Publisher's Web site.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-710) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century. Sumanasāntaka.

Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century. Sumanasāntaka. English.

ISBN:

9789004252035

9004252037

OCLC:

844074032

Publisher Number:

99967281877