Kakawin Bhomantaka

Kakawin Bhomantaka is an Old Javanese Hindu Kakawin written around the 12th century. It is one of the longest Kakawins, being composed of nearly 1,500 stanzas, with a total of about 6,000 total lines of verse.[1][2][3][4]

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Cultural impact

The Bomantaka, despite being composed in Java, has been forgotten entirely from there, but still lives on in Bali, where it is embedded in the local culture, and has been continuously sung, read, preformed, and transmitted.[5]

References
  1. Teeuw, Robson, A. , S.O. Bhomantaka The death of Bhoma. so that a tentative dating to the twelfth century seems justified, with East Java as location. This means that the text is now at least eight hundred years old{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Meij, Th C. van der (31 July 2017). Indonesian Manuscripts from the Islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-34811-0.
  3. Ming, Ding Choo; Molen, Willem van der (15 March 2018). Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature. ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. ISBN 978-981-4786-57-7.
  4. Anthropologica. M. Nijhoff. 2005.
  5. Teeuw, Robson, A. , S.O. Bhomantaka The death of Bhoma. p. 8. The Bhomāntaka on the contrary has been well nigh forgotten in Java where it originated. The only place where it has become embedded in the local culture is Bali, where 800 years after its creation it is still read, sung, transcribed and transmitted, transformed in local adaptations, in theatre and dance performances{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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