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The Court Chronicle (v. commentary on canto 61) is continued for 1362 with an account of a great Tantric ceremony. Like chapter 14, the description of the annual Court festival, chapter 9 evidently was written with devotion to the subject and admiration for the splendour of the display. Perhaps the poet’s intention was to show a parallelism between the esoteric Tantric ceremony and the worldly Caitra celebration. At the end of this chapter the probability of a close relation between the two ceremonies based on the old belief in cosmic duality shall be discussed.
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Pigeaud, T.G.T. (1962). The Posthumous Ceremony in Honour of the Rājapatnī in 1362. In: Java in the 14th Century. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8776-3_9
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