Note 24 — Chapter III · THE DIËNG

The Brata Yuda Yarwa is the Javanese version of the famous Kawi poem Bharata Yuddha which, in its turn, is founded on the Sanskrit epos Mahabharata. The war for the possession of Hastinapura is transplanted to Java; the Sanskrit proper names have passed into the nomenclature of Javanese history and geography; the Indian heroes have become the founders of Javanese dynasties, the progenitors of Javanese nobility.