lliould rather fay tY^LuQidL^ed or faraphrafid) in the Javanefe year 1117, hf 

 a Brahman of Java, called Puseddah. This; date is iovariably prefixed 

 k) every copy of the work. The facred and my flical fy liable 6>/k or 

 On, as the Javmefe pronounce it, is alfo not unfrequently prefixed, and 

 i think is a certificate of the genuine HeWi*?/??! of the poem. The 

 language of the Brata-yuda is much more modera than that 

 of feveral other works. in KaxMh 



Jn Kami there is a verfion of the Eamayana, identified witlT the- 

 celebrated poem of Valmiki, by a precife fimilarity of title, and (as far 

 as my Umited means of informing, myfelf will enable me to judge) of 

 ilyle and.fubjed. The language is more obfolete and obfcure thans 

 that of the Brata-yuda ; and of, the hiHory of the compofition nothing; 

 is known^. 



Another work in ^aro2 is termed Ibelieve with fufficient accuracy 

 Mti'SaJlra. It is a treatife on ethics in a flyle fiill more antiquated and. 



obfcure ihan either: of the two laff works. 



A, FOURTH smd. fifth work are called Vivaha and Arjuna'Vijayai, 

 Thefe are, legends of Abjun, a hero, whofe name is of gj-eat renown om 

 Java zxid Bali. 



Of works on religion and law I can do no more than repeat the lifF 

 with which the Brahmans o^ Bali furnifhed me. Prefixing to eack> 

 name the word book or writing^.the lift is as follows:— v^^^m^, Adigamcij, 

 Furwadigflma, Savafa mufchayagama^ Kutara-manawa, Dewagama, MaifijD;:^- 

 fi^ Tatzoa, Wiya-xmrahj, Dufta-kaLbaya^ Slokantaragama^. Saiw^agama and^ 

 'Gamiyagamanai^' 



* Moft of ihefe works, as well as thofe mentioned above, arc mzvlkiWy of Hmdu origin ; the Jerm y%a«« 

 ,«ih5ch em.e« into the sompof.tion of moa of ihe works here fpecified U a ge^i.rlc term in 5^«/nV for anjv 



