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Hikayat Puspa Wiraja. 
By B. 0. Wixstedt, D. Litt., (Oxox). 
There is a M'S. of this tale at Leiden (Codex 1401, Juynboll’s 
■“ Catalogue ” p. 156, CXXIX) : it was written at Krokot in A.H. 
1237. Xo other MS. of the work is recorded in anv public library. 
J. C. Fraissinet printed it as the Hikaydf Bispu Baja at Leiden 
in 1S49. A fragment was published in Meursinge’s “ Maleisch 
leesboek ” I, 2nd ed., pp. 20-44. A version was printed in 1899 
at the Government Press, Singapore. This paper will not deal 
with textual criticism and I have not had access to Fraissinet’s 
text. But by the kindness of the Batavian Society I have been 
able to consult van der Tuuk’s criticism of Fraissinet’s text in the 
Tijdsehrift voor Xederlandseh Indie” 1849 II, p. 1-15: — no 
copy of the volume exists in the Peninsula ! From that paper I 
infer that the Singapore text is certainly of the same recension 
and may perhaps be Fraissinet’s text corrected by a Malay pundit. 
Both texts are entitled Hikayat Bdpu Raja and both read ^». 
The Singapore text retains the Leiden MS.’s ganii baginda keraja- 
an (p. 12, 1. 11) where Freissinet wrongly alters to ganti kemjaan 
baginda (p. 15, 1. 1). On the other hand it follows Fraissinet’s 
a yah hendak baiva (p. 15, 1. 6) for hendak bapa of the MS. 
Van der Tuuk has elucidated and amended names of persons 
and places. For (or 'jS of the Singapore ed.) he 
would read “ lovely ” of a woman. For “ Astana Pura 
Negara ” he would substitute “ Hestina Pura Negara.” “ City of 
Elephants,” pointing out how the author has borrowed two other 
words out of the Hikayat Pandawa Jaya, the Malay version of the 
Mahabharata, — clioch or the name of a swallow (p. 6, 1. 18) rajasa 
the name of a tree. He translates “ Samanta Pura Negara ” as 
“Frontier City” and derives o jp (or jjT Singapore text, p. 7), 
the name of a tree, from the Indian nyagrodhah , He detects in 
the Leiden MS. traces of a Javanese copyist, merentahkan for 
memer’mtahkan, masang for memasang , confusion between b and p 
leading in the title to “ Bispu Baja” instead of the correct “ Puspa 
Wiraja.” 
Jour. Straits Branch 
