Mpu Monaguṇa's Sumanasāntaka : an old Javanese epic poem, its Indian source and Balinese illustrations / / edited, translated and annotated by Peter Worsley ... [et al.].

• Author: Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century.
• TeilnehmendeR: Worsley, Peter.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblioteca Indonesica 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (732 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"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.

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.