Java in the 14th Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Nāgara-Kĕrtāgama Notes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction, the Royal Family of Majapahit

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      Pages 3-17

   3. Majapahit, the Capital

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      Pages 18-30

   4. Tributaries and Neighbours of Majapahit

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      Pages 31-34

   5. The Royal Progress of 1359

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      Pages 35-54

   6. Notes on the Kings of the House of Rājasa

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      Pages 55-62

   7. The Royal Chase in the Neighbourhood of Singasari

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      Pages 63-67

   8. The Return from the Royal Progress of 1359

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      Pages 68-72

   9. The Royal Progresses of 1360 and 1361

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      Pages 73-74

   10. The Posthumous Ceremony in Honour of the Rājapatnī in 1362

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       Pages 75-83

   11. The Royal Progress of 1363

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       Pages 84-84

   12. Gajah Mada’s Death in 1364 The New Officials

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       Pages 85-87

   13. List of Domains

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       Pages 88-91

   14. Organization of the Clergy and Royal Authority

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       Pages 92-94

   15. The Annual Court Festival in Majapahit

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       Pages 95-102

   16. Conclusion

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       Pages 103-106

3. Notes on the texts and the translations of the Nāgara-Kĕrtāgama colophons

   1. The Nāgara-Kĕrtāgama Colophons

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      Pages 107-108

4. Minor Writings Notes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Nawanatya

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      Pages 111-119

The present second volume of the Nägara-Kertägama edition contains those notes on the tex.t and the translation of the major poem and the appended minor writings and charters that may be of interest to students of the J avanese language. Perusal of these notes on idiom and linguistics will be found the more fruitful if the glossary ( volume V of the present edition) is consulted continuously. No lengthy discussions of linguistic subjects are to be found in the present volume. They would be out of place in this new Nägara­ Kertägama edition, for its tenor is primarily sociological. Exceptions have been made only for some places where short grammatical discus­ sions seemed in place in order to elucidate points of the translation. In the notes on the contemporaneous minor writings and charters differences between the scholarly idiom of Court Iiterature (Nägara­ Kertägama and Royal charters) on the one side and the popular ver­ nacular idiom of daily life on the other have been pointed out repeatedly. The close relationship of the 14th century Majapahit vemacular with modern J avanese is apparent. Occasional remarks on words betonging to regional idioms, either Eastem Javanese Majapahit or Ka

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