Dharmawangśa’s heritage On the appreciation of the Old Javanese Mahābhārata

As we all know, the Old Javanese Mahābhārata was not created from scratch by a Javanese author but was translated (in some sense) from the Sanskrit. The story of Hiḍimbī reveals an interesting difference between the Old Javanese version and the Sanskrit version of the text. In the latter2 Hiḍimbī ap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willem van der Molen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Indonesia 2010-10-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
Online Access:http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/123