• Kidung Dampati lalangon (The diversion of the spouses)
    ᬓᬶᬤᬸᬂᬤᬫ᭄ᬧᬢᬶᬮᬮᬗᭀᬦ᭄

Author:
  • Anak Agung Ketut Karangasem, -1870
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Indic Manuscript no. 97.
Publisher:
  • [Bali or Lombok], [19th century or early 20th century]
Extent:
  • 52 leaves : palm leaf
Format:
Description:
  • Ms.
  • Layout: 4 lines.
  • Decoration: 2 elaborate ink miniatures on both sides of each folio.
Binding note:
  • No covers. Leaves stacked in the pothi format. Drilled with 1 hole, untied. In walnut case.
Subject:
Provenance:
  • Deposit no. 9068.
Former owner:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Curator's notes:

  • Anak Agung Ketut Karangasem ᬳᬦᬓᬕᬸᬂᬓᭂᬢᬸᬢ᭄ᬓᬭᬂᬗᬲᭂᬫ᭄ (?–1870)

    Balinese
    Bali or Lombok, 20th century, palm leaves

    In Bali there was a rich tradition of preserving palm leaf texts, and they are still occasionally produced, in Old or Middle Javanese and Balinese. The work shown here has been recently identified as a poem written by a 19th century king of the Karangasem Kingdom, whose territory spanned from eastern Bali to western Lombok. It includes impressive wayang-style illustrations called prasi, like the text itself incised using a sharp knife on fine-fiber leaves, and then filled in with charcoal made from a local hazelnut.

    Gift of Robert Garrett, Class of 1897, 1942
    Princeton Indic Manuscripts IM 97

    For further reading

    I Wajan Bhadra, and C. Hooykaas. “Dampati lalangon: Balisch gedicht van West-Lombok, tekst en vertaling, met inleiding en noten.” Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 82, no. 1 (1942): 1-60.

    Meij, Dick van der. Indonesian manuscripts from the islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

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