Nawanatya

Abstract

Codex 5091 is a palm-leaf manuscript belonging to the Lombok collection, like the Nāg. codex. The writing is sufficiently clear and the palm-leaves are well preserved. The text is often difficult to translate owing partly to the unfamiliarity of many technical terms and for another part to the scribe’s numerous mistakes. No doubt the Nawanatya text which was read at the Majapahit Court has been emended and enlarged considerably in the course of the following centuries, and several generations of Javanese and Balinese scribes have been at work on it. Nevertheless we must be thankful that we have this mutilated text to give us an idea of what the Majapahit Nawanatya probably was like.