Mpu Monaguṇa's Sumanasāntaka
Subtitle: an Old Javanese epic poem, its Indian source and Balinese illustrations
By: edited, translated and annotated by Peter Worsley, S. Supomo, Thomas M. Hunter, Margaret Fletcher
Contributors: Worsley, Peter, editor, translator; Supomo, S., editor, translator; Hunter, Thomas M., editor, translator; Fletcher, Margaret (Margaret V.), editor, translator; Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century; Monaguna, Mpu, active 12th century
Series: Bibliotheca Indonesica / Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- volume 36
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng; kaw
Number of pages: 714
ISBN-13: 9789004252035; 9789004253018
Subjects: Civilization
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-710) and index.

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