Note 2 — Chapter I · THE COUNTRY, THE PEOPLE AND THEIR WORK
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Strictly speaking, says Dr. Brandes in his notes to his translation of the Pararaton, or the Book of the Kings of Tumapel and Mojopahit (p. 178), there is only one babad tanah jawi, which received its final redaction about 1700. The other babads, though they may contain recapitulations of the general history of Java, treat of local affairs or of certain selected periods, as the babads Surakarta, Diponegoro, Mangkunegoro, Paku Alaman, etc.